""Before, images might have been shown or passed around to other kids in person, which is bad enough," says Danielle Citron, a law professor at t…
"“We’re still guessing,” says Richard Salgado, Google’s director of information security and law enforcement. “We’re not the author of those slides. We hav…
Cross-posted from Forbes. A well-intentioned grandmother accidentally hurt her grandkids’ feelings. She took screenshots of their delightful Instagram photos a…
Almost three months after the federal elections in Germany, the leaders of coalition parties have finally concluded a non-binding coalition agreement that inclu…
"Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who focuses on Internet threats, charted the popular response to Internet death and rape threats i…
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. If our leaders don’t even use email, can we trust them to make decisions about our brave new e-world? In a book released a few…
"Computer science professor Arvind Narayanan, one of the professors leading the project, said he believes Bitcoin provides an opportunity to decentralize p…
"I hope Microsoft announces a major consumer-robotics initiative. Today the Kinect sensor platform is a godsend for professional and amateur roboticists al…
Cross-posted from Mashable. The next step in transformative technology is already here, and the United States runs the risk of getting left behind. The amount…
If there ever was a “year of privacy,” surely it was 2013. A year that ends with dictionary.com selecting “privacy” as “word of the year;” with privacy making f…
When should courts follow legal precedent and when should the law change? This is a debate that underlies this month’s contrary decisions about the constitutio…
Cross-posted from Just Security. When should courts follow legal precedent and when should the law change? This is a debate that underlies this month’s contra…