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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…
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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…