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Misinformation Campaigns, Cybersecurity and the 2020 Census
"rian Nussbaum, a fellow with New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative and an assistant professor of cybersecurity at the University of Albany, said the situ…
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The privacy smokescreen
"The other side: "To conclude that assessments aren't working, I think, is a false conclusion," says Al Gidari, a longtime privacy lawyer now…
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Arizona Now Has a Task Force Focused on Countering Disinformation
"Though it is all hypothetical at this point, I asked a couple of experts about possible issues the task force should be thinking about. “The natural incli…
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The decade Big Brother came home: How tech giants persuaded us to buy products that track us at home
"In the past, users might have thought they were just a “cog in the machine” whose individual activity went unnoticed, but recent privacy failures have pro…
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Genetic testing is an inexact science with real consequences
"And companies are popping up every day, promising to use your DNA for everything from figuring out what wine or marijuana varietals your genetics predispo…
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Thoughts on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Hearing on Encryption
On Tuesday, December 10, the Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) held a hearing on the encryption debate, the first such hearing in years. Most of the senators pre…
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How ‘dark patterns’ influence travel bookings
"Arvind Narayanan, associate professor of computer science at Princeton, has worked with graduate student Mathur on unearthing dark patterns found on retai…
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What's Behind the Secure DNS Controversy and What Should You Do About It?
"Marshall Erwin is Mozilla's senior director of trust and security and a proponent of the "dough" school of pronunciation. From Mozilla's…
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From Pokémon Go to Facebook, here’s how to protect your privacy on apps
"“There’s still a whole ecosystem predicated on sucking as much information from people’s phones as possible,” Jen King, the director of consumer privacy a…
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Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search
"Richard Salgado, Google director of law enforcement and information security, said the company had processes to look through government requests and ensur…
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Why are Precise Location Warrants a Thing?
My last post explained how the recent First Circuit decision in U.S. v. Ackies misconstrued the Tracking Device Statute by an unduly cramped reading of its key…
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In Renewed Encryption Fight, the Techlash Cuts Both Ways
"“A lot of what the tech companies have come under fire for in recent years has largely—especially with regard to Facebook—focused on privacy lapses, insuf…