"“It’s becoming harder to escape the reach of police using technology that didn’t exist before,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, the associate director of surveill…
Hackers seek ransoms from Baltimore and communities across the US Many of Baltimore’s city services are crippled by a cyberattack. Richard Forno, University o…
"“Apple was well known for usability before it was known for privacy,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the…
"“What the Russian government aims to do is take online services out of the loop -- eliminating an important backstop for human rights and the rule of law.…
Tool Without A Handle: Guerilla Information Warfare “The enemies of liberal democracy hack our feelings of fear and hate and vanity, and then use these feelin…
"The NSA is allowed to collect records for individuals up to two times removed from targets, creating exponential growth in the total number of records. Wi…
"Jennifer Granick, a surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the ACLU, explains that the purpose of the law “isn’t necessarily to protect the tech comp…
""Once a tool like this is out there, it's only a matter of time before criminals will take advantage of it and use it against governments or othe…
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…
"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…
Today I have a response piece up on the Boston Review, responding to an intriguing essay by Bruce Schneier and CIS affiliate Henry Farrell about how to protect…
The key term that recurs throughout Henry Farrell’s and Bruce Schneier’s essay is “trust.” That is no surprise, as the concept unites both authors’ bodies of wo…