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Seeing Is Believing
"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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Cyberattack Attribution and the Virtues of Decentralization
In the midst of rising tensions between the United States and Iran over tanker attacks and Iran’s downing of a U.S. drone, reports emerged that U.S. Cyber Comma…
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How to beat a copycat.
If you run a billion (or even million) dollar brand, does it make sense to spend a few thousand dollars to protect your mark from copycats? Or if you are a song…
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Bringing the Fight for Court Transparency to the Ninth Circuit
You may recall that in February, a federal district court in Fresno denied a petition I filed with the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern Cali…
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Raids on Journalists by Australian Police Underscore Need for Assistance and Access Act Repeal
Today I'm submitting my latest entry in a series of comments to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to remind them wh…
Further Submission to PJCIS Regarding Assistance and Access Act
Submission to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) regarding its review of the Assistance and Access Act that had…
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Massive La Liga Fine Just the Beginning of Sports Media’s Newest Battle
"“This is such a heavy-handed thing to do; it’s remarkable they care that little for their customers that they’d turn them into unwitting agents of surveil…
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Stanford Team Aims at Alexa and Siri With a Privacy-Minded Alternative
"It has been almost two decades since Google started to dominate internet search the way Microsoft dominated software for personal computers a generation e…
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House holds hearing on "deepfakes" and artificial intelligence amid national security concerns
"Danielle Citron, Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, testified that there's no finite way to stop deepfak…
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Tackling the ‘Deep Fake,’ House Grasps for Solution to Doctored Videos
"Sharing Ayyub’s story with the committee, University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron noted that the journalist awoke to find her face had been…
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Schiff Calls ‘Deepfakes’ a Nightmarish Threat to 2020 Elections
"The law currently exempts online platforms such as Facebook for most content its users post, but Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Mar…
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After manipulated Zuckerberg, Pelosi videos, lawmakers grasp for ‘deepfake’ answers
"“There are a few phenomena that come together that make deepfakes particularly troubling when they’re provocative and destructive,” Danielle Citron, a law…