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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…
Zoom Inside: The Case for Cybersecurity Clinics and What They Can Teach Your Firm
Indiana is known for several things—the Indy 500, Hoosiers basketball, Notre Dame football, and corn. Cybersecurity does not typically make that shortlist, but…
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Will Yahoo’s Data Breach Help Overhaul Online Security?
"Hemant Bhargava, professor of technology management at University of California-Davis, and Northeastern University law professor Andrea Matwyshyn discusse…
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Federal judge in Pittsburgh cuts Kentucky computer hacker a break
"Anecdotally, there are plenty of examples of people who commit cybercrimes in their youth who go on to become law-abiding citizens and even computer secur…
Hacking Back Is Ethical in the Cyber Frontier
When cyberattacks come from abroad, there’s special panic. We often imagine them to be the opening volleys of a cyberwar that could escalate into a kinetic war.…
Online Trackers Follow Our Digital Shadow By 'Fingerprinting' Browsers, Devices
"Princeton's Arvind Narayanan and Steven Englehardt studied how all the things we do not see as users are valuable to someone on our digital trail, as…
Zoom Inside: The Case for Cybersecurity Clinics and What They Can Teach Your Firm
Indiana is known for several things – the Indy 500, Hoosiers basketball, Notre Dame football, and corn. Cybersecurity does not typically make that shortlist, bu…
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Government lawyers don’t understand the Internet. That’s a problem.
"Some of today’s technical legal befuddlement stems from the fact that the field is so new. “No one who is practicing today had a cybersecurity class in la…
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Cities Fight Domestic Dragnet, Demand Local Police Disclose Use of Spy Gear
""In Ferguson, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, Oakland, South Carolina, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Baton Rouge and now Charlotte, amongst other cities,…