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U.S. v. Auernheimer
Arguing that a defendant’s conviction for website hacking should be overturned because legitimate, highly valuable security and privacy research commonly employ…
Privacy
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Wikimedia v. NSA
Arguing that the information publicly available on the NSA's Upstream program, combined with an understanding of how the Internet works, means plaintiff Wik…
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Apple v. FBI
Arguing that if the court should not compel Apple to create software to enable unlocking and search of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, it will jeopardize d…
The Security Debt Is Coming Due
There’s something particularly unusual about the recent revelations that foreign hackers successfully breached voter registration systems in Arizona and Illinoi…
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Researchers ask federal court to unseal years of surveillance records
"Two lawyers and legal researchers based at Stanford University have formally asked a federal court in San Francisco to unseal numerous records of surveill…
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Researchers file for access to court orders that force companies to break their own encryption
"The researchers are members of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and part of the organization’s Crypto Policy Project, a group es…
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Stanford Researchers Seek Court Documents Ordering Companies to Help Government Defeat Encryption
Researchers at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS) filed a petition yesterday seeking to unseal judicial records in San Francisco federal distric…
Correcting the Record on Section 702: A Prerequisite for Meaningful Surveillance Reform, Part III
In our previous posts, we’ve argued that the NSA is collecting massive amounts of data about US citizens under conditions that have nothing to do with terrorism…
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Shaheen Shariff on rape culture on university campuses
Professor Shaheen Shariff of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, Faculty of Education has embarked upon an ambitious seven-year project to addres…
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Over $10 million in SSHRC funding to support McGill research
"The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada recently announced the recipients of its latest round of Insight, Insight Development, and Pa…
Cybersecurity and consumer protection online
Last week Yahoo announced that 500 million accounts had been hacked – consumer names, email addresses, phone messages, passwords and birth dates were stolen. It…
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Could a revenge porn case in Northern Ireland change Facebook across the planet?
""It is fairly easy for all these companies to figure out where all this data is coming from," Danielle Citron, who authored Hate Crimes in Cyber…