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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Makes Big New Promises About Privacy
"“This does nothing to address the ad targeting and information collection about individuals,” said Jen King, director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law…
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Facebook Promises Encrypted Messaging, but You Don't Need to Wait
"Metadata is valuable because it can be just as revealing as what you write in a message, says Jonathan Mayer, assistant professor of computer science and…
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Uber Not Criminally Liable In Death Of Woman Hit By Self-Driving Car, Prosecutor Says
"Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor whose research focuses on automated driving systems, suggests not reading too much into…
Zuckerberg’s announcement changes everything for Facebook
In a post on Facebook’s website, Mark Zuckerberg has announced profound changes to Facebook’s approach to privacy and, by implication, its business model. Faceb…
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Why Facebook, Google, and Twitter don't want to be media companies
"Jennifer Granick, attorney with ACLU, points out that the arguments, or those engaging in them, are often paradoxical. The same people who don’t want Face…
Theranos: How a broken patent system sustained its decade-long deception
When Patent Office Director Michelle Lee gave that speech, Theranos appeared to be one of the most impressive companies in Silicon Valley. But later that year,…
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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…