Does privacy have a future?
Jennifer Granick talks about how notions of privacy have changed over the years and where she thinks things are headed in the future. She is a professor at the…
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Researchers Ask Court To Unseal Documents Related To Technical Assistance Requests And Electronic Surveillance Warrants
"Now, we have researchers Jennifer Granick and Riana Pfefferkorn petitioning [PDF] the Northern District of California court to unseal documents related to…
Assault With a Deadly Tweet?
Social media has raised tricky questions that judges are beginning to try to answer. It’s been found possible to violate a restraining order by becoming an unwa…
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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, report says
"“Police spying on social media has a disproportionate impact on black people,” said Malkia Cyril, the executive director of the Center for Media Justice,…
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As License-Plate Tracking Increases, Privacy Advocates Press for More Regulation
"Nevertheless, there are some avenues for reform. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration offers grants for states to buy ALPRs for “highway saf…
Privacy & surveillance concerns over voice-recognition devices, Google Home & Amazon Echo
Recently, when Google announced its own version of Amazon's voice-recognition digital home assistant, the company did not spend a moment addressing any priv…
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Subpoena to Encrypted App Provider Highlights Overbroad FBI Requests for Information
"According to Al Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society and a former attorney for many of the major techn…
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Crime-prediction tool PredPol amplifies racially biased policing, study shows
"Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Oakland-based Center for Media Justice, says Oakland's legislators don't care that PredPol hasn't prov…
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Appeals court restores previously-dismissed surveillance lawsuit
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a legal researcher and attorney at Stanford University, told Ars: With there being a fair number of cases out there that have taken a…
The U.S. has just accused Russia of hacking America’s elections. That’s a very big deal.
Obama administration security officials have formally accused Russia of interfering with the U.S. presidential election. The Director of National Intelligence a…
Public-Private Cybersecurity
Abstract: Calls for public-private partnerships to address U.S. cybersecurity failures have become ubiquitous. But the academic literature and public debate ha…
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Will Yahoo Face Lawsuits Over Email Surveillance?
"That order grants Yahoo immunity, said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society. "I think it i…