Op-ed: Five unexpected lessons from the Ashley Madison breach
On December 14, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission settled a complaint with the company running the adult finder site Ashley Madison over the 2015 data breach t…
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Outed Ashley Madison users want to make stolen data legally toxic
"“Are these sites exacerbating an already harmful situation. Yes,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a privacy law expert at Samford University. “But that doesn’t mean…
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Ashley Madison Hack Creates Ethical Conundrum For Researchers
"Jennifer Granick, a law professor at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that the legal questions around the hack are still murky, but a fe…
Leave the cheaters in peace: If you poke around the Ashley Madison data, you're aiding and abetting the hackers
BY DANIELLE KEATS CITRON , MARAM SALAHELDIN When a person’s confidential data is exposed in violation of a legitimate expectation of privacy, it shouldn’t matt…
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Fake or real? Ashley Madison complaints claim accounts not legitimate
"“Often when you have numerous complaints saying the same thing, where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Samford Universit…
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Ethics, law collide in questions over spotlighting Ashley Madison leak
"“Some people will say, `Well, they broke the law, they hacked into this private company’s computers and stole data.’ Yeah, that’s true. But from the other…