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Can YouTube Quiet Its Conspiracy Theorists?
"“To me, a more interesting question is, ‘What effect does the promotion of conspiracy videos via YouTube have on people and society?’” Mr. Narayanan said…
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Three important forces, working in concert, we can't control
"“In our national context we’re on the side of having a fire hose of information,” says Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of policy and law at Penn State Law S…
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SMS a weak link in two-factor authentication: data guru
"Narayanan, who was participating in the Cryptographers' Panel at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, was responding to a prompt from panel…
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Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too
""You may have forgotten about the photos you uploaded to a then-popular social media site ten or fifteen years ago... but Clearview hasn't,"…
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What the Ring hacks tell us about tech’s backward approach to security
"“I don’t think you have to completely trade off one for another,” Jen King, director of consumer privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanfor…
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U.S. regulators to rate new auto tech, but Europe leads in safety testing
"Carmakers in the United States are allowed to self-certify that their vehicles comply with existing rules, said University of South Carolina law professor…
Reply Comments on Telekom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Consultation Paper on "Traffic Management Practices (TMPs) and Multi-Stakeholder Body for Net Neutrality"
On February 27, 2020, Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Sta…
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A judge resigns after using the n-word in texts that she says the public was never meant to see
"The robustness of the First Amendment and the Supreme Court’s interpretation of it has made the personal lives of public officials open to public curiosit…
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CCPA Comments, Round Two: The Battle of the Do Not Sell Button
Yesterday I submitted a second set of comments (see the bottom of this post for a copy) to the California Attorney General’s office for the February round of th…
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Everyone hates California’s self-driving car reports
"“Comparing disengagement rates between companies is worse than meaningless: It creates perverse incentives,” said Bryant Walker Smith, associate professor…
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How Self-Driving Car Makers Measure Their Own Progress
"Don’t expect that light-handed arrangement to change, says Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies…
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DOJ Plans to Strike Against Encryption While the Techlash Iron Is Hot
There’s a story in today’s Washington Post “Cybersecurity 202” newsletter that confirms that the Department of Justice is capitalizing on the techlash in order…