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Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too
""You may have forgotten about the photos you uploaded to a then-popular social media site ten or fifteen years ago... but Clearview hasn't,"…
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DOJ Plans to Strike Against Encryption While the Techlash Iron Is Hot
There’s a story in today’s Washington Post “Cybersecurity 202” newsletter that confirms that the Department of Justice is capitalizing on the techlash in order…
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The police want your phone data. Here’s what they can get — and what they can’t.
"“Basically, anything that a provider has that it can decode, law enforcement is getting it,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for…
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Trump Administration Targets Your 'Warrant-Proof' Encrypted Messages
"Riana Pfefferkorn, at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, says it's a safe bet the best practices would include a requirement t…
Warrant-Proof Encrypted Messages Targeted By Trump Administration
"End-to-end encryption" has gone mainstream, which means tech companies can't decrypt messages even when law enforcement has a warrant. The Trump…
Decipher Security Podcast
Riana Pfefferkorn of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the EARN IT Act's potential effects on encryp…
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AG Barr targets encryption again at human trafficking summit
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a member of the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, wrote of similar concerns to the constitutional rights of online…
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Lindsey Graham Wants to Use Mistrust of Big Tech To Destroy Your Right to Online Privacy
""People are angry about Section 230, so the [Department of Justice] is seizing upon that anger as its opening to attack encryption," writes Rian…
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Trifling with the Courts
This post offers concluding thoughts about the Ackies tracking device case, which I have written about here, here, and here. The Government filed no response t…
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The EARN IT Act: How to Ban End-to-End Encryption Without Actually Banning It
The story so far: In the ‘90s the Internet was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. (with…
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Data breaches, privacy concerns and government pressure turn up the heat for cybersecurity experts
"“They’re not above the law, they’re doing exactly what the law says they can do,” Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity…
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The U.S. government's been trying to stop encryption for 25 years. Will it win this time
"Today, government access to encrypted communications through a mandated backdoor is not the law of the land in any single country. But laws requiring vary…