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5G is a threat to Europe’s absolute net neutrality
"“5G is an evolution, not a revolution,” Thomas Lohninger told TNW. Lohninger is the Executive Director of the digital rights NGO epicenter.works, which re…
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Tech Industry Wants a Stronger Privacy Law Than California’s
"At the Senate hearing, Northeastern University’s Professor of Law and Computer Science Woodrow Hartzog said he teaches his students to expect to deal with…
How Trump speaks like a mob boss
In Michael Cohen’s testimony Wednesday, he said President Trump “doesn’t give orders. He speaks in code. And I understand that code.” James Gagliano, a former m…
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Senators Talk Federal Privacy Regs As Tech Trade Groups Push To Preempt States' Laws
"“In the United States, we have a tradition of dealing with a patchwork of 50 state laws, [and] while there are virtues to consistency, it’s not the obstac…
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Hacker Simple Nomad’s personal opsec tips (Q&A)
"How long have you operated with that assumption? Probably 20 years. I had an incident occur in my hotel room at Black Hat. My room was broken into, and m…
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New FTC Powers Weighed in Senate Data Privacy Hearing
"Hartzog said a 50-state regulatory patchwork isn’t unworkable “because it’s what we’ve been dealing with all along.”" * Date Published:02/27/2019…
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Privacy, Policy, and the Illusion of Control
"Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said in his written testimony for the Senate hearing that this model…
Your Speech, Their Rules: Meet the People Who Guard the Internet
When Facebook started 15 years ago, it didn’t set out to adjudicate the speech rights of 2.2 billion people. Twitter never asked to decide which of the 500 mill…
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Tech Industry Pushes for Australian Encryption Law Changes
"The legislative debate last year drew international attention. Among the critics outside Australia is Riana Pfefferkorn, an associate director of surveill…
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Studies Keep Showing That the Best Way to Stop Piracy Is to Offer Cheaper, Better Alternatives
"But it’s far more than just instinct. Studies from around the world consistently come to the same conclusion, says Annemarie Bridy, a University of Idaho…
Trump may be about to call Europe’s bluff on Iran. Europe isn’t bluffing.
Last Friday, the editorial board of Bloomberg Opinion condemned Europe’s new INSTEX arrangement, a so-called Special Purpose Vehicle set up to allow European co…
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Marvin Ammori's Next Act: A Net Neutrality Vet on Blockchain—and Why the Internet Is Still Great
"If you read about the biggest tech battles in Washington D.C. over the last decade, the name Marvin Ammori comes up again and again. A lanky young lawyer,…