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Dallas Police’s ‘Bomb Robot’ Raises Sticky Questions
"“The legal framework for police use of force assumes human decision-making about immediate human threats,” Elizabeth Joh, a professor of law specializing…
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The Encryption Debate: All Quiet on the Western Front?
The US war on encryption has quieted down recently. The San Bernardino and Brooklyncourt cases concerning encrypted iPhones both ended this spring not with a ba…
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DA Moore hopeful FBI’s stance on unlocking iPhones will help in local criminal case
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, noted that the FBI signed similar agreements with a thi…
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Editorial: Body camera policies must benefit both police and the policed
""By allowing pre-report viewing, statements from officers will always appear more accurate and more credible than other witnesses statements, which w…
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Sacramento-area investigators want iPhones unlocked
"“Part of the conversation is whether the FBI has sufficient training and access to technology (to do its job). Asking the private sector to help is not th…
Who Sets the Rules of the Privacy and Security Game?
Last week’s big cybersecurity news was that the FBI obtained a court order to force Apple to develop new software that would bypass several iPhone security feat…
Surveillance Is Still About Power
Since the Snowden revelations in 2013, surveillance has gone from a somewhat arcane term of art used mainly by scholars, spies, and tinfoil hat types, to a hous…
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Police data could be labelling 'suspects' for crimes they have not committed
"“Soon it will be feasible and affordable for the government to record, store and analyze nearly everything we do,” writes law professor Elizabeth Joh in H…
The Government Shouldn’t Distribute Child Pornography. Period.
Participating in the distribution of child pornography is a federal crime. But that’s exactly what the F.B.I. did in this case. In order to identify more than 1…
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FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images
"“At some point, the government investigation becomes indistinguishable from the crime, and we should ask whether that’s OK,” said Elizabeth Joh, a Univers…
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Quinn: After Paris attacks, technology is the scapegoat
""Nothing has really changed," said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society. W…
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US Cops Are Asking Facebook to Wiretap More Chats Than Ever Before
"As we keep moving our lives online, criminals do the same, so we can expect that police will follow and investigate crimes online. But the latest governme…