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The deepfake threat to evidence
"What's happening: Elected officials, experts and the press have been warning about the potential future fallout for business or elections from deepfak…
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Reply Brief to the Ninth Circuit re Motion to Unseal (Facebook Messenger)
Reply brief of Movants-Appellants EFF, ACLU, and Riana Pfefferkorn to the Ninth Circuit in our appeal from the district court's denial of our motion to unse…
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Tech Companies Didn’t Plan for Chinese Censorship
"Ryan Calo, a professor of digital law and privacy law at the University of Washington School of Law, said that tech companies need to say, clearly and pub…
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Smart TVs are data-collecting machines, new study shows
"“If you use a device such as Roku and Amazon Fire TV, there are numerous companies that can build up a fairly comprehensive picture of what you’re watchin…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Experts slam Justice's move to make child exploitation the face of anti-encryption push
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, said the strategy provid…
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William Barr and Winnie the Pooh
Right now, Chinese users of WeChat, an app that includes text, video, and picture messaging plus a Facebook-style news feed (among many other features), can'…
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Most Deepfakes Are Porn, and They're Multiplying Fast
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at Boston University, describes pornographic deepfakes made without a person’s consent as an “invasion of sexual privacy.…
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Your Visitors Deserve to Know They’re on Camera
"I briefly spoke about this over email with Elizabeth Joh, a University of California, Davis, School of Law professor, who reminded me: “You never just ‘bu…
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U.S. Using Trade Deals to Shield Tech Giants From Foreign Regulators
"“I don’t think there’s a chance that major economies like the E.U. are going to accept C.D.A. 230” said Daphne Keller, the director of intermediary liabil…
Content Moderation for End-to-End Encrypted Messaging
Thursday evening, the Attorney General, the Acting Homeland Security Secretary, and top law enforcement officials from the U.K. and Australia sent an open lette…
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Now your Tesla can come pick you up. California says that’s not ‘driverless’
"“The law is flexible, and a lot of this comes down to how does government feel about these technologies, and equally important, how does government feel a…
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Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules
"“The key thing about this case is what preventive measures can be imposed on Facebook,” said Martin Husovec, an assistant law professor at Tilburg Univers…