""When you do hear about lawsuits with respect to photos on social media, it usually is in a civil action," Professor Jeffrey Vagle, executive di…
"Requiring an opt-in might sound more onerous and more likely to protect privacy because the user has to actively provide affirmative consent, but “the fac…
"Jennifer Granick, director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, explained that separating the needs of law enforcement from…
"Patrick Lin, who led a study this year for California Polytechnic State University on the ethics of hacking back, said there is "a moral case for hac…
Jennifer Granick and Riana Pfefferkorn of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society visit the Dark Reading News Desk at Black Hat to discuss les…
"“Attribution may be based on more than just [a] digital trail in a specific case. It may also be based on a series of exchanges between a series of humans…
The Center for Internet and Society just wrapped up its Law, Borders, and Speech Conference. We had an amazing line-up of speakers and a great set of topics --…
""One of the main selling points for body-worn cameras is their promise to bring transparency and accountability to police community interactions,&quo…
""It could have been beyond the scope, but I’m sure the investors are going to be asking if it was beyond the scope, then why was it," says Scott…
The massive distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack that paralyzed much of the web last week focused a bright spotlight on insecurities in the so-called…
As users of Twitter and many other services probably know, large parts of the Internet weren’t working Friday, thanks to a hacking attack on the Internet’s infr…
""Discovering that Geofeedia was not only being used by social media sites to help police spy on activists of color was disturbing enough," said…