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Microsoft Wins Major Privacy Victory for Data Held Overseas
"“Microsoft’s victory over the U.S. government is a resounding affirmation of the endurance of privacy in an age marked by constant data transfers in the c…
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Feinstein encryption bill, opposed by Silicon Valley, likely dead
"“That’s kind of a do-nothing idea for me,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “It seems like y…
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What can you do when Pokémon Go decides your house is a gym?
""This is a kind of a novel problem," says Ryan Calo, who teaches cyber and privacy law at the University of Washington’s school of law. Usually,…
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How technology disrupted the truth
"As the legal scholar and online-harassment expert Danielle Citron describes it, “people forward on what others think, even if the information is false, mi…
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EU and US adopt Privacy Shield as US spies promise snooping safeguards
"Omer Tene, Vice President of Research and Education at the International Association of Privacy Professionals, said that Privacy Shield had concluded the…
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Privacy Shield gets nod from EU, ripe for judicial challenge
"“The approval of Privacy Shield, an arrangement facilitating commercial data flows between the EU and U.S., concludes a process set off by the Snowden rev…
Risky Business #417 -- PlayPen ruling to let FBI off leash?
In this week's feature interview we're chatting with Stanford's very own Jennifer Granick about a recent ruling in a Virginia court that appears to…
The Encryption Debate: All Quiet on the Western Front?
The US war on encryption has quieted down recently. The San Bernardino and Brooklyncourt cases concerning encrypted iPhones both ended this spring not with a ba…
Bloomberg Law: Password Sharing Conviction Upheld
Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University Law School, and David Levine, a professor at the Elon University School of Law, discuss a federal a…
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Someone is watching your Uber driver
"“With each degree of greater control that is exercised over the driver, Uber may find itself traveling down a path where a court might say there is an ina…
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Court ruling in child-porn case stirs privacy fears
"“This is the opinion of one court judge,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University. “Other courts will, at best, find this to be…
Biometrics in Banking Is Not Secure
Hacking of banks and identities is big business. An estimated 17.6 million Americans were subject to identity theft in 2014, mostly through breached bank accoun…