Dragnet Nation - Julia Angwin
In her new book, Julia Angwin reports from the front lines of America's surveillance economy, a revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, privat…
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International data privacy - what we need is an industry transparency report
Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Twitter, Apple, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and Pinterest all publish transparency reports. Wordpress is the latest company to join the party…
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Adam Carolla is Bummed About Patent Trolls Taking All His Money
"“The basic technology that they claim was invented before they filed their patent,” Nazer explains. “This one is a bit complicated because the patent syst…
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Cyber Cavalry Rides to the Rescue of Internet of Things
"Yet security researchers who, in an attempt to be helpful, discover vulnerabilities and tell companies about them can face lawsuits or even criminal prose…
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Why you should be worried about net neutrality
"Here’s how Barbara van Schewick of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society puts it: “Access fees would significantly increase the costs of o…
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Podcasting in peril? Trial showdown in September
"Daniel Nazer, an EFF staff attorney, is working to invalidate PersonalAudio's patent — which Logan described: "system for disseminating media con…
The FCC Chairman’s Many Excuses
Cross-posted from Slate. A few years ago, Internet users, democracy activists, and entrepreneurs got wind of a proposed law, SOPA, that would have changed the…
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FCC's Wheeler Tries to Clarify Net Neutrality Stance, Again
"In an in-depth blog post written in the wake of Wheeler’s initial comments, Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick argued that critics of the…
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Maryland Police Department Will Live-Tweet a Prostitution Sting Next Week
"Attorneys The Wire spoke with didn't see any problems with the legality of live-tweeting, but did question the moral basis for doing something usually…
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Keep ‘Killer Robots’ off the Battlefield, Canada Urged
"Autonomous weapons don’t actually exist yet, but with the rapid advancements being made in robotics, there are troubling signs, said Peter Asaro, co-found…
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How The Supreme Court Could Reshape The Tech Patent Landscape
"What's curious about this patent to Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is that it was filed way back in 1996. "…
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Brazil Leads the Efforts in Internet Governance with its Recently Enacted "Marco Civil da Internet". What’s in it for Intermediary Liability?
On April 23, 2014, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff enacted the country’s long awaited Internet Bill of Rights, locally known as “Marco Civil da Internet”. Fi…