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How the Supreme Court Could Rewrite the Rules for DNA Searches
"Like fingerprints in an earlier age, finding a DNA match is now considered the gold standard for criminal prosecutions in America. But the Golden State Ki…
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Driverless cars are growing in number, but makers don't want to reveal how they sometimes fail
"The lack of transparency about the workings of sensors, logic processors, mapping systems and other driverless technology, like the debate over robot-car…
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How the internet tricks you out of privacy using 'dark patterns' of design
"Deceptive design nudges, tricks and goads you into sharing more than you might intend to online, Professor Hartzog argues in his new book, Privacy's B…
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Cops take dead man’s smartphone to his corpse in attempt to unlock it
"Another attorney, Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School, underscored the fact that not only was going to a dead person’s fingerp…
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Experts rip Ray Ozzie's plan for unlocking encrypted phones
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School, who earlier this year wrote a whitepaper on "responsible encryption," said that…
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Should Police Body Cameras Get Facial Recognition Tech?
"But what happens if the technology makes a mistake? "It's a recipe for tragedy," said Harlan Yu, executive director for Upturn, a technology…
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Meet Badass, the Grassroots Activists Hitting Revenge Porn Where It Lives
""Culturally, we’ve taken a huge hit," Danielle Citron, who teaches law at the University of Maryland, told WIRED last March. “Getting people to…
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Users must demand more privacy protection, Mozilla director tells MPs
"A director with Mozilla Corp., the company that makes the Firefox browser, says he welcomes more regulation of the internet but is also urging citizens to…
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Axon's police body cams could be getting an AI upgrade. Civil rights groups are worried.
"Harlan Yu, executive director of Upturn, which monitors police agencies' body camera policies and is one of the letter's signatories, said the gro…
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What Happens When a Self-driving Car Is at Fault?
"Not to mention its track record. “It’s not just being able to show what happened but being able to show that the data should be believed,” says Bryant Wal…
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American politics and the changing media landscape
""These platforms that have really brilliantly democratized the ability to publish for everybody also have brought this sort of architecture that can…
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Net neutrality death delayed
""Portugal features the worst net neutrality violations we have seen in Europe to this day. It is hard to imagine how an independent regulator cannot…