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The EARN IT Act Is Here. Surprise, It’s Still Bad News.
Well, the dreaded day has come: the EARN IT Act was formally introduced today in the Senate Judiciary Committee. I wrote at length in January about the bill, wh…
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EARN IT Act Not Earning Much Support
"“Previously, the answer from Congress was ‘do nothing,’ both on passing an anti-encryption law -- something for which Congress has heretofore shown no app…
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The EARN IT Act Is a Sneak Attack on Encryption
"Riana Pfefferkorn, the associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, outlined fears about the pr…
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India needs clear net neutrality rules for network management: Barbara van Schewick, Stanford law professor
"Net neutrality rules need to enforce “application agnostic” rules, that is, internet providers should not discriminate against entire classes of services,…
Get that thing off my car.
Ben explains why Apple may pay half a billion dollars to settle a class action suit, Dave has an update on last week's GPS tracking device story, and later…
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Mohawks face online threats, hate as protest continues
"Shaheen Shariff is a McGill University professor who has studied hate speech for the past 20 years. She says what’s happening online is disturbing and dan…
Will the First Amendment Kill Free Speech in America?
This episode features a lively (and – fair warning – long) interview with Daphne Keller, Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford University&#…
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'No need for committee to enforce net neutrality': Airtel to TRAI
"In a counter-comment, Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick cautioned against allowing the kind of flexibility Airtel is asking for. “ISPs have rout…
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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,"…