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Signal Boost
"“First of all, black communities been knowing that we had to code our communications,” said Malkia Cyril of the Oakland-based Center for Media Justice, wh…
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American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It
Jennifer Stisa Granick, the Director of Civil Liberties at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, is an expert in computer crime and security, e…
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Stanford Law’s Jennifer Granick wins Palmer Prize for new book
JENNIFER GRANICK, lecturer-in-law and director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, won the 2016 IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law/…
Trump’s Dangerous Attribution Message on Russian Hacking—and How to Counter It
President-elect Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the Intelligence Community and denials of Russian involvement in the hacking of the Democratic National Commi…
Looking back at 2016, A Status Check on Government Hacking
Last year, the ongoing encryption debate took a backseat to a steady drip of stories and developments related to government hackings. This set the stage for a s…
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The disgusting stuff female athletes hear on social media and how they’re fighting back
"None of these findings has surprised Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. “It…
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Oakland Privacy Commission Approves Surveillance Transparency and Oversight Law
"Catherine Crump, the co-director of UC Berkeley's Center for Law and Technology told the commission the new law "has the potential to have a nati…
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National cybersecurity expert weighs in on Russia hacking hearings
"National expert Dr. Richard Forno, who is the assistant director of the University of Maryland Baltimore County's cybersecurity program, tells NewsCha…
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Should Government Agencies Know Precisely Where You Get Picked Up and Dropped Off?
I submitted comments this week to the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission as the Director of Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). The e…
Follow Buddies and Block Buddies: A Simple Proposal to Improve Civility, Control, and Privacy on Twitter
The 2016 election has put squarely on the public agenda a series of questions related to the norms of social media, everything from the proliferation of fake ne…
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Google Publishes 8 Secrets from FBI Requests
"“In our continued effort to increase transparency around government demands for user data, today we begin to make available to the public the National Sec…
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Trump's 'throw-up-your-hands' approach to cybersecurity worries experts
""The idea that you just sort of throw up your hands and say, 'nothing can ever be secure so why try,'—that's a really dangerous posture a…