"“This is really a deep question about the power of government to redesign products that we use,” said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor…
"“They’re deeply a consumer company,” said Ryan Calo, an assistant law professor at the University of Washington. “They’re less reliant on information as a…
"Technology consultant Richard Forno, a veteran in the security industry and one who has worked for the government as well, pointed out that while the FBI…
"“The issue is of monumental importance, not only to the government and Apple but to the other technology giants as well,” said Tom Rubin, a former attorne…
Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter and English, and Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University and former FTC senior policy adviser, discuss…
"The company has a good case, according to Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of…
"Apple, likely to be joined in its resistance by other tech companies, has a good chance of winning in the end, said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of t…
FBI Director James Comey recently told the Senate Judiciary Committee that encryption routinely poses a problem for law enforcement. He stated that encryption h…
The Obama administration has apparently decided not to support exceptional access proposals that would provide law enforcement with the means to access data on…
""The court filings scrupulously avoid naming Tor (or mentioning hacking). Instead, they provide a detailed description of an anonymizing ‘Network’ an…
It should be clear to even casual observers today that the “golden age of surveillance” thesis is fundamentally correct. We live in a time when far more data an…
Author: José Mauro Decoussau Machado Citing the First Amendment, the Second Circuit invalidated provisions of the Patriot Act that permit the FBI to impose a…