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Facebook Has Difficult Road to Make Ads Unblockable
"“Facebook engineers could try harder to obfuscate the differences. For example, they could use non-human-readable element IDs to make it harder to figure…
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Indiana businesses targeted as ransomware viruses spread across U.S.
"Hackers’ favorite targets include health systems and local governments, said Scott Shackelford, a professor of business law and ethics in the Kelley Schoo…
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Bridgewater, N.S. Sexting Case Will Test Canada's New Law
"McGill University education professor Shaheen Shariff studied the "digitally empowered'' generation of kids in a 2013 project that used surve…
Hanging Internet Users Out to Dry
Over the past few months, a team at Mozilla has been looking closely at the recent remote hacking cases currently winding their way through the courts. Because…
Rio 2016 — A Gold Medal For Cybersecurity?
In many cases athletes train for years, if not decades, to reach the pinnacle of their sports and represent their respective nations in the Olympic Games. Incre…
Bloomberg Law Brief: Twitter Not Liable for ISIS Tweets
Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, and David Greene, Civil Liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, discuss T…
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The Marvel Chairman, a Hate-Mail Feud and Claims of Stolen DNA
"Change has come slowly despite warnings in the Boston University Law Review about how employers, a person in a romantic relationship or fans of celebritie…
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Our Fingerprints Are Portals Into Our Digital Lives — But the Laws Haven't Caught Up
"First of all, there's the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unlawful search and seizure. The problem is, according to Yana Welinder, a nonresid…
Tech Tuesday: Hacking During the Election, Portrayal of Women in Video Games and Virtual Reality
With recent hacking issues, some wonder how vulnerable computer systems will be during the U.S. election and what security measures are in place to deal with an…
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Editorial: Hacking into elections
""Interfering with the electoral and political process of countries is a classic tool of intelligence and foreign policy,” noted Richard Forno of the…
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Government data requests have little legal backing say experts
"The Stanford Center for Internet and Society's Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties, and Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow, said at Blac…
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Ferguson Improves Police Body Camera Policy, But Gaps Remain, Critics Say
"Harlan Yu, a principal at Upturn, said Ferguson’s updated policy is an improvement over the one it assessed for its study, which came from a 2014 document…