America’s founders hated general warrants. So why has the government resurrected them?
Laura Donohue is a professor of law at Georgetown University and was recently appointed as a public advocate to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Sh…
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The Age of Global Transparency
The age of global transparency is upon us. Whether you’re using mobile wiretaps, drones, or satellites, surveillance has become cheap and ubiquitous. And govern…
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Internet threatens to loosen iron fists of China, Russia, strategists say
"“They want the economic benefits and all of the good parts of the Internet, but they want to control it,” said Brian Nussbaum, a cybersecurity professor a…
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The Tiny European Country That Became A Global Leader In Digital Government
"Governments at all levels in the United States will pursue digital city initiatives, but society “will be slow to embrace such innovations because of the…
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Why is Google's co-founder secretly investing in flying cars?
""Silicon Valley is full of secret projects: Flying cars are almost quaint by comparison (since people have been proposing them for decades)," Br…
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Silicon Valley county passes new law requiring approval before cops buy spy kit
"Catherine Crump, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said that she was not aware of any county nationwide to implement such a law,…
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Why you should think twice before spilling your guts to a chatbot
"“Chatbots may be able to get us to say more about ourselves than an ordinary website,” says Ryan Calo, codirector of the Tech Policy Lab at the University…
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Online anti-Semitism: Difficult to Fight, but Even Harder to Quantify
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and an expert on online harassment, is not sure whether online anti-Semitism is spreadin…
It's Too Complicated: How the Internet Upends Katz, Smith, and Electronic Surveillance Law
For more than forty years, electronic surveillance law in the United States developed under constitutional and statutory regimes that, given the technology of t…
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Why is everyone covering up their laptop cameras?
"Yet not everyone is on the camera-covering bandwagon. Brian Pascal, a privacy expert who has worked for Stanford and Palantir Technologies says a cost-ben…
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EU, U.S. sign data privacy umbrella agreement
"Industry professionals warn of the economic consequences that the lack of certainty involving data sharing agreements could create. International Associat…
Giving Up on Cybersecurity
UCLA Law Review Discourse, Vol. 64, Forthcoming UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-29 Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a dramatic incr…