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The SEC Play for a Backdoor to Your Email
The FBI demand for access to a locked iPhone by compelling Apple to write new software to undo its security features has sucked the oxygen out of the surveillan…
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DoJ Misleads Court on CALEA in the Apple Case
The Department of Justice (DoJ) filed its response yesterday to Apple's motion to vacate the court’s order that directed Apple to write new code and certify…
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FCC outlines proposal for regulating broadband providers' privacy practices
"Omer Tene, Vice President of Research and Education at the policy-neutral International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), acknowledged in an in…
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Apple Might Be Forced To Reveal & Share iPhone Unlocking Code Widely
"n addition, defense counsel would undoubtedly demand the right for their own third-party experts to have access not only to the source code, but to furthe…
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Biometrics Are Coming, Along With Serious Security Concerns
"Just because someone might be able to use their ear at checkout doesn’t mean it’s necessarily going to happen anytime soon, though. “Biometrics are tricky…
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The Shame Game
"That doesn’t mean shaming will always have the intended effect. There’s always a chance the public won’t latch onto a given case. And even if officials wa…
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Berkeley Talk on Apple vs. the FBI
On March 7, 2016, I had the pleasure of giving a talk to the Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association at Berkeley Law. I discussed the so-called "Apple…
Up from below: tackling cyber threats
More nations in the Asia-Pacific are adopting a bottom-up approach to cybersecurity regulation. That’s a good thing, Scott Shackelford writes. Cybersecurity is…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 64: Apple, The FBI & You
I don't think I need to reiterate how important the battle over the future of encryption is. It's not new, but rather the latest clash in a fight that h…
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The land that kills its tinkers
"While some proponents of both have laudable goals–protecting the intellectual property of innovators and building intelligence that can save lives–the dan…
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As Apple vs. FBI deepens, tech companies face these nuclear options
"Andrea Matwyshyn, a scholar at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society and a professor at Boston's Northeastern University School of…
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At Supreme Court, Debate Over Phone Privacy Has A Long History
""The justices had phones [by 1967], and they knew that they talked about their most private stuff on those phones," says Jennifer Stisa Granick,…