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Cash-back shopping savings, but at what price?
"Cashback services collect a lot of data. This would be fine if it stayed within the company, says Jen King, director of consumer privacy at the Center for…
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It’s Been One Year Since GDPR Scared the Crap Out of Silicon Valley, What’s Next?
"“If you want to be more skeptical, the question is does all this activity actually deliver more privacy?” said Omer Tene, Vice President at the Internatio…
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As GDPR Enters 2nd Year, Cos. Still Searching For Answers
""There's a lot of inherent ambiguity in the GDPR, so the EDPB and courts will have their hands full," said Omer Tene, the International Asso…
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Serial cyberstalker could avoid prison again under plea deal
"University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron, author of the book “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace,” said state criminal statutes outlawing such behavior…
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Jourova urges member states to respect ‘the spirit of the GDPR’
"However, Omer Tene, vice president and chief knowledge officer of the IAPP, struck a sober tone in response to the figures, saying that while the numbers…
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Facebook, Twitter, Google Seek to Assuage Lawmakers About 2020
""There is no silver bullet, but we will continue to work to get it right," said Richard Salgado, Google’s director of law enforcement and inform…
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Court Denies Petition to Unseal Its Perma-Sealed Surveillance Docket
After 32 months of litigation, my quest to unseal my local federal district court's sealed surveillance docket has ended with not a single page unsealed and…
Order Denying Petition to Unseal
Opinion and order affirming magistrate judge's report and recommendation (R&R) to deny the Petition to Unseal filed by Riana Pfefferkorn and Jennifer Gr…
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Jeff Adachi leak: Chief Bill Scott describes raid of journalist’s home as investigation of ‘alleged co-conspirator’
"This statement, however, confused legal experts. “In fact, the standard to get a warrant is probable cause,” said Geoffrey King, an attorney and UC Berkel…
Our Cars Are Now Roving Computers. Is The Fourth Amendment Ready?
Our cars don’t just take us from point A to point B anymore. They now play our favorite Spotify playlists, read us our text messages, and make phone calls. They…
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Judge Denies Petition to Unseal 13 Years of Government Surveillance Records
"In a Stanford CIS blog post, Pfefferkorn said she found hope in the opinion. “For one, the court rejected the government’s unfounded attempt to argue that…
Disinformation in Contemporary U.S. Foreign Policy: Impacts and Ethics in an Era of Fake News, Social Media, and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract Misinformation and disinformation, often in the form of fake news disseminated on social media, are proliferating in the “post-truth” era, with profou…