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What 7 Creepy Patents Reveal About Facebook
"As long as Facebook keeps collecting personal information, we should be wary that it could be used for purposes more insidious than targeted advertising,…
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The Dangers of Tech's Privacy Promises
"“The space for existing without being searchable and findable at all times is shrinking,” Woodrow Hartzog, author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Co…
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Lessons From Making Internet Companies Liable For User's Speech: You Get Less Speech, Less Security And Less Innovation
"Stanford's Daphne Keller is one of the world's foremost experts on intermediary liability protections and someone we've mentioned on the websi…
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5 biggest risks of sharing your DNA with consumer genetic-testing companies
""The key thing about your genetic data ... it is uniquely yours. It identifies you, so if you are going to entrust it to a company, you should try to…
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What AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner means for the future of the internet
"In a phone conversation Thursday, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society fellow Ryan Singel further explained the problem. "While zero…
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Some Google employees are talking about pushing for a brand new kind of workers union
"Peter Asaro, associate professor of media studies at the New School in New York, coauthored a letter that echoed the demands of Google's protesting em…
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The death of America's net neutrality and how it affects you
"Everyone will feel they need to be in the fast lane, but the ones who can afford it are the big media companies, says Ryan Singel. "If a video doesn&…
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The Cybersecurity 202: We surveyed 100 experts. A majority rejected the FBI's push for encryption back doors.
""Third-party tools such as Cellebrite and GrayKey, combined with other sources of data such as cloud backups, metadata, the Internet of Things, and s…
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Google pledges not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
"Peter Asaro, vice chairman of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, said this week that Google's backing off from the project was good n…
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Alexa and other smart speakers may endanger privacy rights
"“If you install a private corporation’s microphone-enabled device in your house, you should count on the fact that third parties may well access the infor…
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Here’s how companies have flouted net neutrality before and what made them stop
"Net neutrality rules were actually in place by 2011 when this happened. But Google Wallet was in a complicated position. Verizon wasn’t exactly blocking w…
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For Black Lives Activists, Engaging in Trump’s Pardon Politics Feels Like a Deal With the Devil
"“It’s clear that this is a PR stunt,” says Malkia Cyril, executive director and co-founder of the Center for Media Justice, an Oakland-based group focused…