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The EARN IT Act Is a Sneak Attack on Encryption
"Riana Pfefferkorn, the associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, outlined fears about the pr…
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India needs clear net neutrality rules for network management: Barbara van Schewick, Stanford law professor
"Net neutrality rules need to enforce “application agnostic” rules, that is, internet providers should not discriminate against entire classes of services,…
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Mohawks face online threats, hate as protest continues
"Shaheen Shariff is a McGill University professor who has studied hate speech for the past 20 years. She says what’s happening online is disturbing and dan…
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'No need for committee to enforce net neutrality': Airtel to TRAI
"In a counter-comment, Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick cautioned against allowing the kind of flexibility Airtel is asking for. “ISPs have rout…
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Can YouTube Quiet Its Conspiracy Theorists?
"“To me, a more interesting question is, ‘What effect does the promotion of conspiracy videos via YouTube have on people and society?’” Mr. Narayanan said…
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Three important forces, working in concert, we can't control
"“In our national context we’re on the side of having a fire hose of information,” says Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of policy and law at Penn State Law S…
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SMS a weak link in two-factor authentication: data guru
"Narayanan, who was participating in the Cryptographers' Panel at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, was responding to a prompt from panel…
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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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What the Ring hacks tell us about tech’s backward approach to security
"“I don’t think you have to completely trade off one for another,” Jen King, director of consumer privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanfor…
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U.S. regulators to rate new auto tech, but Europe leads in safety testing
"Carmakers in the United States are allowed to self-certify that their vehicles comply with existing rules, said University of South Carolina law professor…
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A judge resigns after using the n-word in texts that she says the public was never meant to see
"The robustness of the First Amendment and the Supreme Court’s interpretation of it has made the personal lives of public officials open to public curiosit…
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Everyone hates California’s self-driving car reports
"“Comparing disengagement rates between companies is worse than meaningless: It creates perverse incentives,” said Bryant Walker Smith, associate professor…