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Is Trust & Safety Dead, or Just Evolving?
Is this the end of Trust & Safety? Is anyone left to defend it? It had a golden age, but it appears to be over. In its place is a grim realpolitick, or, som…
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Taking Scale Seriously in Technology Law
Issues of scale—the relationship between the amount of an activity and its associated costs and benefits—permeate discussions around law and technologies. Indee…
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Search, swipe, sleep — everything you do is being tracked, but can you even ‘turn it off’?!
This week’s conversation on The Intersect is about online privacy – or maybe the slow, confusing erosion of it. I sat down with culture and tech reporter Taylor…
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Tech tools to track protesters accused of interfering with ICE
Catherine Crump, technology law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law gives insight on location data tech used to track dissidents. Some tech-skeptical Califor…
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Vermont police are using drones more than ever. Here's what that means
Catherine Crump — a University of California, Berkeley clinical law professor who specializes in privacy and surveillance — says that’s because drone technology…
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EU Member States Still Cannot Agree About End-to-End Encryption
Recently, Wired reported on documents leaked in May from the Council of the European Union’s ongoing deliberations over the draft Child Sex Abuse Regulation. Th…
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My Comment to the UK Government on Its Proposal to Ban “Bespoke,” “Sophisticated” Encrypted Phones
The UK Government is proposing to change the law to make it easier for them to prosecute those who sell or possess “sophisticated encrypted communications devic…
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Some Thoughts About Apple’s New Advanced Data Protection Feature
Last week, Apple announced several new security features: the ability to authenticate contacts in iMessage (reminiscent of Signal’s verification feature), suppo…
Letter to European Commission re proposed regulation on child sex abuse
Comments provided to the European Commission in response to its proposal for a regulation on fighting child sexual abuse online, which is available here. *…
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The End of Roe Will Bring About a Sea Change in the Encryption Debate
With the Supreme Court poised to rip away a constitutional right that’s been the law of the land for nearly half a century by overturning Roe v. Wade, it’s time…
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User Privacy vs. Platform Transparency: The Conflicts Are Real and We Need to Talk About Them
Pretty much everyone wants better information about how platforms propagate and govern online speech. We are probably about to get it. A major pending EU law wi…
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Ignoring EARN IT’s Fourth Amendment Problem Won’t Make It Go Away
This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act: * Blog posts here at the CIS blog: part 1, part 2, par…