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Wiretap Numbers Still Don't Add Up
Earlier this year, I wrote that the wiretap numbers reported by the Administrative Office (AO) of the US Courts in its 2014 Wiretap Report and those disclosed i…
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Some pervert cyberflashed me on the subway—And I have my iPhone to thank
"Flashing someone is illegal, but the cyber equivalent isn’t, said Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, who has written a boo…
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Alleged Kidnapping Raises Questions About Online Harassment
""We often see people who torment domestic partners will torment them and terrorize them with any tool they have, and that is on and offline," Un…
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Congress Is About to Expand Government Hacking Powers
"Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at Samford University who specializes in privacy law, says the history of computer crime law shows that vague language ca…
Facebook Must Stay Out of China
Andrew McLaughlin, technology executive: Though it has been evident for years that Mark Zuckerberg really, really wants Facebook to operate in China, I’m genui…
Five Lessons From the Rise of Bodycams
More than two years after Ferguson became a hashtag, spawned a movement, and drew national attention to problems about police accountability, the most tangible…
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Donald Trump’s surveillance state: All the tools to suppress dissent and kill free speech are already in place
"“Surveillance powers have a history of abuse in totalitarian societies,” Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told Salon.…
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How to Fix Silicon Valley’s Sexist Algorithms
"But not everyone believes gender bias should be eliminated from the data sets. Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton,…
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Fake News, Hate Speech and Social Media Abuse: What’s the Solution?
"Underpinning the moves by the social media companies is a law (section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) that that gives them “a modicum of legal pro…
Citizens need more say over police surveillance technology
Palo Alto lawmakers have proposed legislation granting the community greater control over police surveillance — including the Police Department’s purchase and u…
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Global Right to Be Forgotten Delisting: Why CNIL is Wrong
The French Data Protection Agency, CNIL, is currently before a French court, arguing that Google needs to do more to comply with “Right to Be Forgotten” or “Rig…
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It’s time to get rid of the Facebook “news feed,” because it’s not news
"Facebook's highly personalized algorithmic curation of its users' newsfeeds falls in a legal gray area with respect to CDA 230. As you know, CDA 2…