Zuckerberg Agrees to Congressional Testimony
Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, discusses Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s agreement to appear before the House Energy and Com…
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What Heavier Regulation Could Wind Up Costing Facebook
"Richard Forno, assistant director of University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Center for Cybersecurity, said that while he doesn't think Congres…
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With no clear liability against Facebook, professor calls for stronger data privacy laws
"The FTC investigation is the most significant legal threat Facebook has faced, and could lead to a massive fine for the social network. We spoke with pro…
Facebook’s New Controversy Shows How Easily Online Political Ads Can Manipulate You
The questions surrounding the role of Facebook and other social media sites in the politics of our time have been coming at what feels like an accelerating pace…
How Facebook Stymies Social Science
What exactly was the extent of Russian meddling in the 2016 election campaign? How widespread was its infiltration of social media? And how much influence did i…
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Public Access to Smart Data
Last month, the Supreme Court of California may have decided the future of the public’s access to “smart city” data without knowing it. In ACLU v Los Angeles Po…
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How to deal with Equifax and our ‘broken’ credit protection system
"So says Al Gidari, the director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, who points to a criminal investigation into whether Equifax ex…
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The evolving laws and rules around privacy, data security, and robots
"Every day we use countless digital devices and web services to shop, track our fitness, chat with friends, play games, check-in at stores and restaurants,…
Privacy and the Dark Side of Control
To hear some in industry and government tell it, the answer to our modern privacy dilemma is simple: give users more control. There is seemingly no privacy-rel…
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More U.S. companies push back on foreign must-store-data-here rule
"“Part of what made the Internet always great and the reason why it’s blossomed is because it was always decentralized and not subject to heavy-handed regu…
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How to Disappear? Is it possible to move through a smart city undetected?
Even in the middle of major city, it’s possible to go off the grid. Last year, the Atlantic profiled a family in Washington, D.C., that harvests their entire ho…
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The main differences between internet privacy in the US and the EU
""[They have] this idea that privacy is something that's quite central, that it could be thought of in terms of if property rights," said Ind…