How Many Times Has the Government Spied on You Today?
The Snowden revelations, while dramatic, have done little to amp up public concern about personal surveillance. After all, thanks to technology, electronic spy…
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How Long Can Border Agents Keep Your Email Password?
"“Based on the policy and reported incidents, my best guess is that CBP agents have broad discretion to keep login credentials if they think they will have…
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Judge: No, feds can’t nab all Apple devices and try everyone’s fingerprints
"Riana Pfefferkorn, one of the lawyers who first found this judicial opinion and publicized it on Twitter, told Ars that part of the problem with these typ…
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Federal Court: Cops Can't Just Walk Into A Building And Force Unlock iPhones With Finger
"In an opinion found by Stanford cryptography fellow Riana Pfefferkorn, from magistrate Judge M. David Weisman (published below), the court denied the gove…
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How Peter Thiel's Palantir Helped the NSA Spy on the Whole World
"The former PCAP member who did respond, Stanford privacy scholar Omer Tene, told The Intercept that he was unaware of “any specific relationship, agreemen…
Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speech Tradition
Abstract Though scholars have identified the expanding scope of First Amendment speech doctrine, little attention has been paid to the theoretical transformati…
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New master's degree provides practical approaches to policy, legal and ethical cybersecurity issues
""If you speak with policymakers and technical specialists about cybersecurity, they often speak about similar problems but use totally different lang…
'American Spies' author Jennifer Granick on privacy in the age of surveillance
The internet makes access to information incredibly easy, and we normally see that as a good thing. But what if the information being accessed is details of our…
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"Smart Cities" Are Too Smart for Your Privacy
No one wants to live in a “dumb” city. But I question whether anyone ought to want to live in a really smart city either. I’d prefer to just live in a smarter…
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Law Profs Say Government Has Power to Demand Companies Protect Consumer Data
"On Feb. 16, eight privacy and security law professors—Kenneth A. Bamberger, Woodrow Hartzog, Chris Jay Hoofnagle, William McGeveran, Deirdre K. Mulligan,…
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Jennifer Granick on spying: ‘The more we collect, the less we know’ (Q&A)
"“Spying is thriving” because little is understood about how pervasive it is. So writes Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Law Scho…
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‘Alexa, Call My Mom!’ — Will The Echo Become A Phone?
"We’re headed to a world of embedded sensors in everything, that measure everything, that see everything, that hear everything,” said Albert Gidari, direct…