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How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her
"People are starting to understand “that the web watches them back,” says Aleecia McDonald, a privacy researcher at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Soci…
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Civil Rights Groups: Police Are Making Little Progress on Improving Body Cam Policies
"“By allowing officers to review footage as they write their initial incident report, it makes it easier for them to act for the camera and create multiple…
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Should police get to view bodycam footage immediately?
"“Because of what's happening around the country, officers seem to have this special advantage now where they get to view footage before writing report…
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Texas killings may aid Rosenstein’s crusade on encryption
"“It’s basically the gloves coming off,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society. Indeed, P…
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Congress’s end run around a pillar of online free speech
"Daphne Keller of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society says that the new law could push some platforms and publishers to crack down on a wide varie…
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As mass data collection becomes the norm, concerns about surveillance are growing
"This is why conversations regarding smart city data collection sometimes miss the point. Albert Gidari, Director of Privacy at the Stanford Centre for Int…
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How to Make Cars Cooperate
"Without federal help, however, the upfront cost of connected infrastructure can be prohibitive for small towns and cities. Bryant Walker Smith, a law prof…
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Another mass shooting, another locked phone
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said the phone could contain information not available elsewhere…
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With Amazon Key’s launch, customers and lawyers have lots of questions
""Would it be possible for a person unknowingly to authorize a law enforcement agency or a criminal to access Amazon Key?" Elizabeth Joh, a law p…
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It’s Getting Harder for Tech Companies To Deny Responsibility for Content
"The opposing view, held by advocates for victims of crime or harassment online, is that giving tech companies immunity removes any incentive they have to…
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Congress Can Crack Down On Tech Companies, But It Can’t Do Much To Their Algorithms
"“When platforms don’t know what to do, the legally over-cautious response is to go way overboard on taking things down just in case they’re illegal,” Daph…
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So What the Hell Is Doxxing?
"For some, doxxing is morally troubling. Law professor Danielle Citron is one. “It provides a permission structure to go outside the law and punish each ot…