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Computer hacking for 8-year-olds
The hacker who goes by the pseudonym CyFi won't share her real name and declines to be photographed without her signature aviator sunglasses. At the annual…
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A Self-Driving Crash Test
In honor of anyone who just took a bar exam, here's the wholly hypothetical scenario I used at last week's excellent multidiscliplinary workshop on road…
Comments on BEREC’s Public Consultation on Network Neutrality, BoR (12) 32 - Guidelines for Quality of Service in the scope of Net Neutrality, BoR (12) 31 - Differentiation practices and related competition issues in the scope of Net Neutrality
I welcome the opportunity to comment on BEREC’s Public Consultation on Network Neutrality. I submit these comments as a professor of law and, by courtesy, elect…
Comments on BEREC’s Public Consultation on Network Neutrality
I welcome the opportunity to comment on BEREC’s Public Consultation on Network Neutrality. I submit these comments as a professor of law and, by courtesy, elect…
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There is no new thing under the sun
Photo: Like its namesake, the European Data Protection Directive ("DPD"), this Mercedes is old, German-designed, clunky and noisy – yet effective. [Ph…
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Looking back 5 Years, and designing forward
Five years. It passes quickly, time as the currency of life. Five years ago (2007), Google surpassed Microsoft as the "most valuable global brand,"…
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Clearing The Air On Skype: Most Of What You Read Was Not Accurate, But There Are Still Reasons To Worry
Hill spoke to legal expert Jennifer Granick who pointed out that just the uncertainty and threat that such legislation might come down the road at some point se…
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Privacy: For the Rich or for the Poor?
I am delighted to have been invited to guest blog on Concurring Opinions for the next few weeks. I am re-posting here with permission a shorter version of my po…
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Is the government doing enough to protect us online?
At one point, Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, asked the large audience of security…
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This Is What Is Actually 'Terrifying' About Microsoft's Skype Policy
A few days ago, my colleague Eric Jackson wrote a post on speculation that recent changes to Skype’s architecture may have made it easier for Microsoft to tap t…
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The government thinks you should focus on the adversary, but who is the adversary?
Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford University, asked the crowd to raise their hands for a quick straw poll: “Who is more afraid of Google…
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Black Hat panel: Which do you trust less with your data, the U.S. government or Google?
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Black Hat Conference here, a panel of experts got together to expound on what they see as the privacy and security mess…