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MLAT Reform and the 80% Solution - What's Good for Users?
Last week, The Washington Post reported that the US and the UK were in negotiations to permit UK law enforcement agencies to request stored communications like…
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School threats cost educational time, taxpayer money
"Brian Nussbaum, a former intelligence analyst who now is an assistant professor of public administration at University at Albany in New York, said that be…
The NSA is massively reorganizing itself. That’s going to hurt its credibility
The National Security Agency has been having a tough time the last couple of years, as it takes the blame for widespread surveillance. It has just announced a m…
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Smart Cities – The Cyber Security and Privacy Implications of Ubiquitous Urban Computing
The rapid growth of embedded computing and the “Internet of Things” (IoT) have been felt in many industries and areas, but few organizations and jurisdictions h…
Surveillance Is Still About Power
Since the Snowden revelations in 2013, surveillance has gone from a somewhat arcane term of art used mainly by scholars, spies, and tinfoil hat types, to a hous…
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When a Public Family Is Publicly Attacked
"Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University and author of “Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age,” said he think…
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Police data could be labelling 'suspects' for crimes they have not committed
"“Soon it will be feasible and affordable for the government to record, store and analyze nearly everything we do,” writes law professor Elizabeth Joh in H…
Truth and Power - About The Issue: Cell Phone Surveillance
Jennifer Granick, Director of Civil Liberties, is in this episode discussing Stingray technology. "Truth and Power" highlights Daniel Rigmaiden, the…
Bloomberg Law: Dish Claims Innocence in Robocall Suit (Audio)
Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at Northeastern University and former FTC senior policy advisor and Steven Calkins, a law professor at Wayne State University and…
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New Berkman Center Report Assures Us That Law Enforcement Isn't "Going Dark"
The Berklett Cybersecurity Project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University has just released a new report on the so-called “going d…
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Should this man go to prison for buying a child sex doll?
"On the other side of the debate is how far you can go in criminalizing thoughts and desires that don’t actually hurt anyone. Were Harrisson a resident of…
If U.S. privacy negotiations with Europe fail, it’s a recipe for chaos
The European Union and the United States are about to give us some idea of how their negotiations over the Safe Harbor dispute are going. The European Court of…