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Is Posting on Facebook a Fundamental Right?
"“That’s of importance to anyone who uses the internet and digital products and services,” says Neil Richards, a Washington University law professor who sp…
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The Startup That’s in Charge of the Biggest Private Satellite Fleet
"The higher resolution will likely raise privacy and security concerns, however, just as Google’s Street View did in its early days. Making public precise…
Opinion: The tech behind Bitcoin could reinvent cybersecurity
Given the recent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure around the world such as the Christmas 2016 power outage in Ukraine, which left more than 200,000 peopl…
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…