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Should we be skeptical of government hack attributions?
"“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…
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Cross Border Content Removal Demands - You Decide
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 --…
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Why Body Camera Programs Fail
""One of the main selling points for body-worn cameras is their promise to bring transparency and accountability to police community interactions,&quo…
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Why Verizon's Due Diligence May Not Have Caught Yahoo's Massive Security Breach
""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…
Opinion: How to fix an internet of broken things
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…
It probably wasn’t Russia who attacked the Internet today. That’s what’s scary.
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…
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CIA-backed surveillance software was marketed in public schools wanting to monitor students' social media posts
""Discovering that Geofeedia was not only being used by social media sites to help police spy on activists of color was disturbing enough," said…
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Racial Disparities in Police 'Stingray' Surveillance, Mapped
"“We have to ask the question: ‘What are you doing with all that data?’,” says Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice. “We don’t know—that’s part of…
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"Tool Without A Handle" - Mobile Tools
“Tool Without a Handle” – Mobile Tools This post continues my thoughts on qualities of digital tools that have helped make political and artistic expression mo…
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Activists, the police may be watching your Facebook page
"“At every protest, we assume we’re being spied on, because we know we are,” said Malkia Cyril, the executive director of the Center for Media Justice acti…
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Lawmakers try to stop mass hacking of Americans' computers by feds
""The use of various forms of (hacking) . . . are more invasive than other searches because they often have unknown, widespread, and sometimes destruc…
Cybersecurity Expert Discusses Voting, Hackers
"FBI Director James Comey has said that voter-registration sites in at least a dozen states — including Arizona — were targeted by hackers. Department of…