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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…
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Here’s how Mexican journalist avoided iPhone spyware hack
"“The links for Cabrera, the only word I can put on it is diabolical, as clever as they were evil,” said Geoffrey King, a lawyer and technology program coo…
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WhatsApp to Share User Data With Facebook
"Thursday’s changes likely can’t be applied to data users have already shared with WhatsApp, said Ryan Calo, a professor of law at the University of Washin…
Apple vulnerability is surprising, but journalists should stick with iPhones
A rare and serious vulnerability in Apple's iOS operating system has been discovered by researchers at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which to…
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Apple vulnerability is surprising, but journalists should stick with iPhones
""Building secure software is a highly challenging task, even for a world-class team such as Apple's," Riana Pfefferkorn, Cryptography Fellow…
When the Cops Come A-Knocking: Handling Technical Assistance Demands from Law Enforcement
What kind of surveillance assistance can the U.S. government force companies to provide? This issue has entered the public consciousness due to the FBI's de…
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WikiLeaks postings of Turkish emails included active links to malware
"“Wikileaks does not appear to operate within any particular principles with regard to information dumps. The ad hoc nature of their leaks means that they…
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US wiretap figures don't match what the phone giants are saying — and that's a problem
"Albert Gidari, a former leading privacy lawyer who now serves as director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, was fir…
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Facebook Can’t Win Against Ad Blockers, and Here’s the Proof
"Narayanan concludes in his post that Facebook’s anti-ad-blocking campaign is doomed, at least if it continues in the current vein of acting as if the soci…