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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…
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Robotic ‘dog’ joins ranks of Massachusetts State Police
"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law specializing in robotics and cyberlaw, told the outlet that authorities need to clear…
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They See You When You’re Shopping
"“We’ve removed so many social cues from online conversation that I can actually see the benefit of trying to add that back in,” said Jennifer King, the di…
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Senate Democrats release robust federal privacy bill to regulate tech company business practices
"“This legislation represents a sea change, particularly in the way federal law thinks about privacy harm,” said University of Washington law professor Rya…
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At the forefront of Europe’s battle for tech transparency
"Thomas Lohninger, the director of Vienna-based digital rights NGO Epicenter.works and a former policy advisor for European Digital Rights, says that the E…
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Senate Dems Have A New Privacy Bill That Could Be The Blueprint For A Federal Law
"Although it’s unlikely that a national privacy law will pass this year – or successfully wend its way through Congress before the 2020 presidential electi…
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Welcome to Deepfake Hell
"Riana Pfefferkorn is the associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. She’s been at the forefront o…