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What we know about you when you click on this article
"“I don’t think you guys are doing anything different than anyone else in the media ecosystem, but that doesn’t make it great,” Jennifer King, director of…
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Authoritarian Nations Are Turning the Internet Into a Weapon
"“Designing things specifically for activists is often a challenging proposition,” says security expert Tom Lowenthal. “When you make a tool for a threaten…
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US debate on internet liability spills over to global trade deals
"Danielle Citron, a Boston University law professor specializing in online speech, said Section 230 has failed to live up to its promise and that modifying…
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How Deepfakes Scramble Our Sense of True and False
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at Boston University, tells Sleepwalkers that deepfakes are being used to harass women, both in private and in public. La…
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Losing Track of the Tracking Device Statute
You, a first-year law student taking your Crim Pro exam, quickly scan the first question: “Can a cell phone be a tracking device?” Your initial reaction – must…
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Pelosi pushes to keep tech’s legal shield out of trade agreement with Mexico and Canada
"Experts on the panel, like Boston University School of Law professor Danielle Citron, suggested tying the liability shield to companies’ demonstrating “re…
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UW research center to tackle the problem of fake news
"Ryan Calo, a UW law professor and one of the co-directors of the center, said they hope to publish online tools to help people decipher a suspicious artic…
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Don’t obsess over the security of Chinese wireless gear. Do this instead
"“At this point, the bans on Huawei are more of a theoretical concern,” says Ryan Singel, a media and strategy fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for I…
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The CJEU’s new filtering case, the Terrorist Content Regulation, and the future of filtering mandates in the EU
A. Introduction For several years now, one of the most hotly contested Internet policy questions in the European Union (EU) has been whether and how platforms…
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Facebook testing a way to let you move photos to rival sites
"Martin Husovec, an assistant professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands who has written about data portability, said authorities were debating whe…
Comments on Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) Draft Guidelines on the Implementation of the Open Internet Regulation, BoR (19) 179
On November 28, 2019, Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Sta…
DEF CON 27 Crypto and Privacy Village - Riana Pfefferkorn - Compelled Device Decryption and 5A
You can unlock your smartphone with a passcode, your finger, even your face. When the cops demand you decrypt your phone or other device for them, can you succe…