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Cleaning Up The Dirty
"“Richie is taking advantage of what I’d understand as something like a liminal state,” said law professor Danielle Citron, who wrote the book Hate Crimes…
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The man behind the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website is being sued by one of his ‘troll storm’ targets
"“I think it’s an incredibly important lawsuit,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland who specializes in online privacy. Dig…
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Facebook’s biggest challenge: actual reality
"“Social media companies need to think very carefully about what next steps they’re going to take,” said Malkia Cyril, executive director for the Center fo…
The three ‘B's’ of cybersecurity for small businesses
Large-scale cyberattacks with eye-watering statistics, like the breach of a billion Yahoo accounts in 2016, grab most of the headlines. But what often gets lost…
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A Murder Posted on Facebook Prompts Outrage and Questions Over Responsibility
"“Any of these platforms — especially live ones — encourages users to perform,” said Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California, Davis.…
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Civil Rights Lawyers Plan to Challenge New York’s Body-Camera Program
"Harlan Yu, a principal at Upturn, a consulting firm that evaluates police body-camera policies on a range of measures, agreed. “Being the largest departm…
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Facebook wanted ‘visceral’ live video. It’s getting live-streaming killers and suicides.
"“It's amazing how performative people are in their cruelty,” said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who has worked with Facebook…
Hackers have just dumped a treasure trove of NSA data. Here’s what it means.
A group of hackers called the Shadow Brokers has just released a new dump of data from the National Security Agency. This is plausibly the most extensive and im…
The future of ad blocking
There’s an ongoing arms race between ad blockers and websites — more and more sites either try to sneak their ads through or force users to disable ad blockers.…
Good cop cameras, bad rules: The NYPD's body-cam guidelines need fixing
Last summer, the NYPD asked New Yorkers what rules should apply to the body-worn cameras that police will soon begin wearing. The response was overwhelming: Mor…
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Princeton-Fung Global Forum asks if liberty can survive the digital age
"With new technology has come cheaper forms of surveillance, according to Harlan Yu, who received a Ph.D. in 2012. Yu is a principal at Upturn, an organiza…
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Axon Offers Free Body Cameras To Police For A Year, But Some Critics Find The Deal 'Troubling'
"Interview Highlights: Elizabeth Joh On her qualms about one company giving out these cameras "I wouldn't say I'm not a big fan, but I think…