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How to find bad drivers on the road near you
"“We’re losing some of the granularity between car and driver that we’ve had in other contexts,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer sci…
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Legislating Against Revenge Porn: The Constitutional Pitfalls
"Revenge porn is a relatively new, yet extremely contentious topic. The act of violating someone's privacy in this manner, exposing their most intimate…
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Proposals to curb online speech viewed as threat to open internet
""This is the next evolution of political suppression," said Richard Forno, assistant director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Ce…
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Tech Companies Fight Back After Years of Being Deluged With Secret FBI Requests
"“Many small companies don’t read these things carefully,” Albert Gidari, a prominent national security attorney who worked on many cases involving such le…
Apple wants to know users better without knowing them
"While Google has used differential privacy to analyze user data from its Chrome browser, Apple is the first major tech company to adopt it more widely and…
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Family of ISIS Paris attack victim sues Google, Facebook and Twitter
"“[Social networks] can censor more or less anything they want and it also have incredible abilities to leave up as much as they wants to leave up,” said R…
DNC Breach and the Threat of Cyber Espionage
With the news that Russian hackers stole Democratic National Committee campaign data, the threats of cyber espionage and cyber attacks from foreign entities are…
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Apple Tries to Peek at User Habits Without Violating Privacy
"One reason that differential privacy hasn’t been adopted more widely is that it is difficult to get right. “It’s not quite something you can deploy in a p…
Human Rights and Cybersecurity Due Diligence: A Comparative Study
Abstract: No company, just like no nation, is an island in cyberspace; the actions of actors from hacktivists to nation states have the potential to impact the…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Apple's latest security fix is deepening divisions over FBI access
"But proponents of tough security on consumer devices, such as Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, say…
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7 lessons from BuzzFeed’s ‘FOIA-friendly newsroom’
"If BuzzFeed reporters are having trouble getting records, they can turn to Nabiha Syed, the company's assistant general counsel. She often handles the…
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This hacker is fighting ISIS by spamming its Twitter accounts with porn
"Shouting down web-based terrorist recruiting cells, that’s a good thing, said Ryan Calo, professor of law at the University of Washington and co-director…