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Uber plans to start audio-recording rides in the U.S. for safety
"Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said Uber runs the risk of violating those laws. What the c…
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Can the US-UK CLOUD Act Agreement be Fixed?
I’ve written here, here, here about the interception flaw in the US-UK Agreement under the CLOUD Act, which permits at least the UK to order US platforms to wir…
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Tool Without A Handle: “Book Review: Tools and Weapons”
Tool Without A Handle: “Book Review: Tools and Weapons” “Since the dawn of time, any tool can be used for good or ill. Even a broom can be used to sweep the…
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Transparency Reporting After the Cloud Act - It's Time for a Refresh
I’ve written here, here and here about the interception flaw in the US-UK Agreement under the CLOUD Act, which permits at least the UK to order US platforms to…
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More Questions about the CLOUD Act and the US-UK Agreement - Can the US direct UK Providers to Wiretap their Users in Third Countries?
In my first blog post on the CLOUD Act and US-UK Agreement, I noted that the wiretap provision of the CLOUD Act - as opposed to the stored content provisions re…
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Will Big Tech’s Antitrust Moment Swing Open Encryption Backdoors?
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity for Stanford Law School, said antitrust suspicion and the calls for backdoors to e…
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Police think Amazon’s Alexa may have information on a fatal stabbing case
"From a legal perspective, the investigative practice is straightforward, said Princeton University professor Jonathan Mayer. “Law enforcement can access…
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The Week in Tech: WhatsApp’s Spyware Fight Is at Least Good P.R.
"But not all court cases are just about getting a jury verdict. “I think it’s a sincere attempt to use the C.F.A.A. in a novel way,” said Riana Pfefferkorn…
Is Carpenter Unemployed? Carpenter v. United States One Year Later
Increasingly, we are incorporating into our daily lives devices and services that collect metadata: from our smartphones, to our web browsers, to an ever-expand…
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US and UK CLOUD Act Wiretapping in Third Countries: It Is a Real Problem
My blog post on the big interception flaw in the CLOUD Act and US-UK Agreement generated some interesting responses, mostly offline, arguing that it is legal fo…
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The Big Interception Flaw in the US-UK Cloud Act Agreement
On October 3, 2019, the United States and the United Kingdom entered into a first-of-its-kind executive agreement under the CLOUD Act. The text of the agreement…
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After mass shootings, Google told Congress his arrest was progress. But the truth is complicated.
""The technology that flags these things doesn't know the truth," said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the ACLU S…