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Facebook emails show us again that profits come before privacy
"Facebook is just a very high-profile example of that problem. Its claim that it doesn't sell user is based on a narrow interpretation of the word sell…
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Facebook Emails Reveal Debates Over Selling Data Access
"Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said the documents could raise concerns about antitrust and how Faceb…
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Fixing Facebook? Zuckerberg falls short of his New Year's goal
""They created a platform where sharing was mindlessly easy and interacting with each other required almost no forethought at all," said Woodrow…
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ACLU asks court to release a secret order forcing Facebook to wiretap Messenger
"Jennifer Granick, the ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel, said the public “deserves to know why the government thought it could dismantle measu…
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Sending Lewd Nudes to Strangers Could Mean a Year in Jail
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and the author of a book on hate crimes in cyberspace, said that clarification could be…
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The Music Industry Asks US Government to Make 'Unauthorized Streaming' a Felony
"“DNS blocks are easy to circumvent, because site operators can just register a different domain name in the same top level domain or move to a different t…
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New Ways To Prevent Identity Theft During The Holiday Shopping Season
"hat's what Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of business law and ethics in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, recommends. He re…
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When the Internet Archive Forgets
"“The fair use defense in this context has never been litigated,” noted Annemarie Bridy, a law professor at the University of Idaho and an Affiliate Schola…
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What's Next: A Sneak Peak at Consumer DNA Collection’s Dangerous Road + SEC's Early Loss on a Crypto ICO
"Stanford Law’s Jen King is more than familiar with the potential policy pitfalls unique to this area of data collection. As director of consumer privacy f…
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The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website to Unmask a Cybercriminal
"“What kinds of criminals mask their location, and for what kinds of crimes? Child pornography, yes; violent threats, yes; but also organized-crime rings e…
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FTC Hearings #7: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, and Predictive Analytics
"While panelists acknowledged valid consumer protection concerns, they generally counseled against overly-cautious regulation and were instead in favor of…
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1 big thing: All rise for AI
""An algorithm could've given us Dred Scott or Korematsu," said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, referring to a pa…