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Echoes of murder
"Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, also thinks that criminal implications of a device like Echo, given th…
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Bloomberg Law Brief: License Plate Readers in Court
Jonathan Adler, a professor at Case Western University School of Law, and Catherine Crump, Professor at Berkeley Law School, discuss whether or not police depar…
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Record breach
"As to how regulators might take on enforcement, Northeastern University professor Andrea Matwyshyn, who has advised the FTC on data security policy, said…
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DOJ Study: Police-Worn Body Cameras Increasingly Recognize Your Face
"“A lot of civil rights groups and communities have warned that body worn cameras were going to be used as a tool for police surveillance, rather than as a…
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Google publishes secret FBI customer information requests two months after gag order is lifted
""In our continued effort to increase transparency around government demands for user data, today we begin to make available to the public the Nationa…
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It took three years for Yahoo to tell us about its latest breach. Why does it take so long?
"“The law should require, not just encourage, reasonable data security practices from companies that collect, process, and share personal information,” sai…
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A design blueprint for privacy
"One outstanding privacy commentator was Prof Woodrow Hartzog of Samford University, Alabama. Prof Hartzog is the Starnes Professor of Law at Cumberland Sc…
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Do You Really Need to Cover Your Computer Webcam?
"Just beware that putting something over your camera lens isn’t a complete solution, according to Marshall Erwin, head of trust and privacy at Mozilla, whi…
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Silicon Valley execs need to grow a conscience on Muslim registry
"“The fact that we’re even having this conversation is very disturbing,” said Geoffrey King, when I phoned him for a comment. King is a constitutional lawy…
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Tool Without a Handle: "A Dust Cloud of Nonsense"
Tool Without a Handle: “A Dust Cloud of Nonsense” On October 30, 1938, the “Mercury Theater on the Air” broadcast a radio drama adaptation of H.G. Wells’ scie…
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At Halfway Mark, Few Details About Police Body Camera Effort
"Most large and mid-size cities with some form of a body camera program haven't been forthcoming once their programs are underway, said Harlan Yu, a pr…
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Who would want access to 1 billion Yahoo accounts?
"If this most recent attack is also state-sponsored, says Albert Gidari, the director of Privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, "it&…