Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis is the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking to date. We measure stateful (cookie-…
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Huge new study shows that Google is watching you everywhere you go
"All of this might sound terrifying, but as assistant professor Arvind Narayanan and graduate student Steven Englehardt explain, the preeminence of Google,…
There Is No Such Thing as “Public” Data
Are you an OkCupid user? Would you consider the data on your profile public—fair game for anyone to download and share with the rest of the world? That’s the a…
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Paying without passwords and PINs
Back in 2000, ING Direct Canada – the digital bank that became Tangerine Bank – piloted a “biometric” mouse that would scan users’ fingerprints to help bypass t…
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Your call and text records are far more revealing than you think
""The study has important implications for surveillance law and policy," says Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist and data privacy expert at P…
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“Tool Without a Handle: “Tools for Terror, Tools for Peace,” part II
This blog continues the analysis of how to respond to terrorist activity (including recruitment and planning of attacks) using network information technology, i…
How SecureDrop helps CPJ protect journalists
CPJ is proud to announce our instance of SecureDrop, the anonymous submission system engineered to resist even nation-state surveillance. In a time of unprecede…
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How Should ‘Sextortion’ Be Punished?
"“Law is our teacher. It educates us,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. “It…
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DA Moore hopeful FBI’s stance on unlocking iPhones will help in local criminal case
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, noted that the FBI signed similar agreements with a thi…
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Tech groups want next president to emphasize cybersecurity
"Andrew McLaughlin, former Obama administration deputy chief technology officer and now head of content organization at Medium, proposed in a tweet Tuesday…
When Selfies Become Surveillance Beacons
Few things represent the age of social media better than posting a selfie. We share these ubiquitous self-portraits with such an urgency you’d think we’d cea…
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Will artificial intelligence revolutionize cybersecurity?
""Just imagine a world in which bots are out there looking for vulnerabilities and other bots or artificial intelligence is simultaneously poking hole…