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Towards Learning from Losing Aaron Swartz
Over the weekend, I learned that Aaron Swartz had taken his own life. I cried, and am still crying, for him, his family, for the close friends who loved him, a…
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Weev Speaks
Notorious hacker "Weev" joins Hufftington Post after being found guilty on charges of breaching AT&T's security. Is his conviction a blow to f…
Intermediary Liability on the Internet - Ashley Hurst - Video
From Ashley Hurst's CIS Speaker Series talk on October 25, 2012. The extent to which internet intermediaries such as Facebook and Google should be liable f…
Intermediary Liability on the Internet - Ashley Hurst - Audio
Stanford Center for Internet and Society Speakers Series Talk - Ashley Hurst - October 25, 2012 The extent to which internet intermediaries such as Facebook an…
Free Speech on YouTube: Google's Lose-Lose Situation
CIS Affiliate Scholar Marvin Ammori and New America Senior Fellow Rebecca MacKinnon discuss Google's decision to restrict access to an anti-Islamic video th…
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Google’s restricting of anti-Muslim video shows role of Web firms as free-speech arbiters
“It’s a little bit of censorship and a little bit of diplomacy in a difficult situation,” said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties for the Stanford La…
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UPDATED: Sixth Circuit Cell Tracking Case Travels Down the Wrong Road
Today the Sixth Circuit ruled in United States v. Skinner that police do not need a warrant to obtain GPS location data for mobile phones. Investigators obtai…
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How to build effective cyber defenses
From my opinion piece today on CNN: Top Obama administration officials have been pressing the U.S. Congress hard for legislation to improve network security fo…
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Ninth Circuit Gives Government a Pass On Warrantless Wiretapping
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Government by Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a now-defunct charity that fede…
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TVShack Extradition Case Tumbling as Seventh Circuit Holds Linking/Streaming is Lawful
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) criminal prosecution of British citizen Richard O'Dwyer for operating a site called TVShack hit what o…
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NYPD Battles Twitter for Identity of User Promising Violence 'Just Like in Aurora'
If Twitter were to turn over the user's identity at the first request, it could be liable for any mistake or potential invasion of privacy, according to Jen…
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Computer hacking for 8-year-olds
The hacker who goes by the pseudonym CyFi won't share her real name and declines to be photographed without her signature aviator sunglasses. At the annual…