When Toasters Attack: 5 Steps to Improve the Security of Things
There is a great deal of buzz surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT), which is the notion, simply put, that nearly everything not currently connected to the I…
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The Lawyer Protecting Your First Amendment Rights
"When a federal civil rights case accusing a Yale professor of sexual misconduct landed on BuzzFeed reporter Katie Baker’s desk, the words that had dominat…
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Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Becomes a Civil Rights Crusader
"Challenging the government over the scope of search warrants may seem like administrative arcana next to causes that get crowds of protesters onto the str…
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Multinational Companies Remain Wary of U.S.-EU Data-Transfer Pact
"Legal experts offered several reasons why companies aren’t embracing Privacy Shield, including the possibility that it, too, will be invalidated. “There i…
Internet Tracking Has Moved Beyond Cookies
"A new survey from a group of Princeton researchers of one million websitessheds some light on the cutting-edge tricks being used to follow your digital tr…
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Survey: 34% of privacy pros expect their companies to certify under Privacy Shield
"Omer Tene, VP of Research and Education at the IAPP, suggested in an interview with SCMagazine.com that companies may be disinclined to jump through the r…
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Trump's New App Wants You — and Your Data
"To be sure, this doesn't mean the Trump campaign is doing anything with users' data — it just means it can. And some users may not know it: David…
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Blocked and banned by social media: When is it censorship?
"Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, compared social networks to town squares of centuries past — an analog…
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Hate Pokémon Go? You Can Still Love Augmented Reality
"With the Be My Eyes app, a blind person can send an image to a person with sight, who has volunteered to help answer their question. One day, machines wil…
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Innocents Exposed as WikiLeaks Gushes Information
"There is an ongoing debate over the role of WikiLeaks, which claims to refrain from taking political positions on the information it gathers, noted Albert…
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Trump Campaign App's Data Grab Could Expose Everyone in Your Contact List, Experts Say
"“It is perfectly legal to do so,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School. “That you may…
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Unusual stock move shakes up cyber community
"“I wouldn’t say it’s good,” said Northeastern University law professor Andrea Matwyshyn. “I would say it’s inevitable.” The action by Muddy Waters wa…