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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…
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Amazon Echo search warrant could spur new prosecution methods, expert says
"yan Calo, a professor at the UW School of Law who specializes in privacy, robotics and cyberlaw issues, says the Bentonville Police Department’s fishing e…
Op-ed: Five unexpected lessons from the Ashley Madison breach
On December 14, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission settled a complaint with the company running the adult finder site Ashley Madison over the 2015 data breach t…
White House Retaliation for Russian Hacking
This afternoon the White House announced several actions against Russia in retaliation for Russian interference in the U.S. election. Key among them is the use…
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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…
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…