Illinois Issues: Hackers Expose Cybersecurity Holes In The State
"That inability to address growing cyber risk is part of what makes state and local governments easy targets for hackers, says Brian Nussbaum, a professor…
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Alert: Sunrise Coming in May for New Privacy Law, Enforcer in Japan
"Woodrow Hartzog, Starnes Professor of Law at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, told Bloomberg BNA that the amended act “makes some very…
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Cybersecurity researchers halt work with law enforcement, cancel conferences in travel ban's wake
"University of Washington robotics law expert Ryan Calo said via email that while Homeland Security has “amazing and dedicated" people, “I'm not g…
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Encryption for All: Why This American Tradition Must Be Upheld
"While many proponents of backdoors say that they are vital to intelligence gathering processes, privacy advocates like King believe that the very premise…
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Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Needs to Get Tech—These Cases Show Why
"Now the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments in this case in February, must decide whether constitutional rights apply across US borders. That’s where…
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Gorsuch Might Play Key Role In Cell Phone Privacy Issues If Confirmed To The Supreme Court
"“We will see technical assistance to decrypt communications or facilitate access find its way to the court,” Albert Gidari, the director of privacy at Sta…
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Wiretap Reports Not So Transparent
I have been writing for some time about the huge discrepancy between the number of wiretaps reported annually by the Administrative Office (AO) of the US Courts…
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This Creepy “Family History” Site Might Know Way Too Much About You
"Other genealogy sites such as Ancestry.com have all that same information on file. Sure, they have fees, but a bit of red tape won’t stop anyone who’s det…
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New Ostrom program assesses issues of cybersecurity
"On the third floor of The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis building, nestled in the corner at the end of a hallw…
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Microsoft victory in overseas data privacy case stands
"Jennifer Granick of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society has argued that a Microsoft win could mean these cases are decided in countries with fewe…
Predicting Corporate Intelligence Agencites in the 1960s
The recent tumult around the emergence of a dossier suggesting salacious things about President Donald Trump has cast light on a series of for-profit intelligen…
Living in a modern surveillance state
Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about government su…