An Empirical Study of Wireless Carrier Authentication for SIM Swaps
Abstract We examined the authentication procedures used by five prepaid wireless carriers when a customer attempted to change their SIM card. These procedures…
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Facts and Where to Find Them: Empirical Research on Internet Platforms and Content Moderation
Abstract Reliable information about platforms’ content removal systems was, for many years, hard to come by. But data and disclosures are steadily emerging as…
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Female Journalists Still Bear the Brunt of Cyberattacks
"Danielle Citron, a Boston University law professor and author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace,” said in an email interview that she is ambivalent about the…
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Privacy-Obsessed Parents: This Baby Monitor Without Wi-Fi Actually Works
"Jen King, the director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, adds that “hackers often use devices like baby monito…
Facebook Takes a Step Forward on Deepfakes—And Stumbles
The good news is that Facebook is finally taking action against deepfakes. The bad news is that the platform’s new policy does not go far enough. Journalists,…
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Facebook tries to curb deepfake videos as 2020 election heats up
"Facebook was praised by some experts, including Boston University Law School professor Danielle Citron, for becoming more proactive and receptive to outsi…
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U.S. warns businesses of threat of cyberattacks
"Dr. Richard Forno, assistant director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity, said Maryland may be a likely target of cyber warfare in the future. “Marylan…
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Internet nonprofit leaders fight deal to sell control of .org domain
"“What offended me about the Ethos Capital deal and the way it unfolded is that it seems to have completely betrayed this concept of stewardship,” said And…
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CCPA: What California's new privacy law means for Facebook, Twitter users
""The debate will inevitably increase the requirements and the burden on the social media companies as well," said Omer Tene, vice president and…
How California's New Data Privacy Law Will Affect Consumers
California's new data privacy law went into effect on January 1. California consumers now have the right to know how their data is used, the right to get th…
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California's sweeping digital privacy bill raises a question: Will people use it?
"The law's biggest impact, in fact, may lie in how it requires companies to track what data they have, where they keep it and how to get it to people w…
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Data Breach at Wyze Labs Exposes Information of 2.4 Million Customers
"While Congress has not yet passed federal legislation to provide consumers with protections against data breaches, all 50 states and D.C., Guam, Puerto Ri…