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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…
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Lake Area Schools Use Data Breach To Alert Parents: The Era Of Mining (And Protecting) Student Data Is Here
"Scott Shackelford, associate professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, and Cybersecurity Program Chair, at I…
Seeing Like a Finite State Machine
Reading this tweet by Maciej Ceglowski makes me want to set down a conjecture that I’ve been entertaining for the last couple of years (in part thanks to having…
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Banning Strong Encryption Does Not Mean Catching Criminals. It Only Makes You Less Safe from Them.
On November 17, 2019, Reuters reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had drafted a resolution for the international police organization, Interp…
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Imagine Being on Trial. With Exonerating Evidence Trapped on Your Phone.
"Al Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanford Law School, said that the Stored Communications Act prevents defense lawyers from using subpoenas to harass…
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Alleged bank robber accuses police of illegally using Google location data to catch him
"“We vigorously protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement,” Richard Salgado, Google’s director of law enforce…
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How to recognize AI snake oil
"Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan (previously) has posted slides and notes from a recent MIT talk on "How to recognize AI snake oil"…
Privacy's Constitutional Moment and the Limits of Data Protection
Abstract America’s privacy bill has come due. Since the dawn of the Internet, Congress has repeatedly failed to build a robust identity for American privacy la…
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Uber plans to start audio-recording rides in the U.S. for safety
"Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said Uber runs the risk of violating those laws. What the c…
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Big Tech’s Favorite Legal Shield Is in Danger
"Daphne Keller, an expert on Internet liability at Stanford University, says only a very small portion of the “bad” content on Facebook would be barred if…