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…
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Safari Is Now The Only Major Browser That Offers ‘Do Not Track’ on iOS
"“From a technical point of view, this is Apple's ‘fault,’” Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton who has worked on…
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Data Privacy Day: Changes transform policy, perspective since last year
"Many of the most important developments have had a Eurocentric flavor to them. For instance, the European Court of Justice in October 2015 struck down the…
The Government Shouldn’t Distribute Child Pornography. Period.
Participating in the distribution of child pornography is a federal crime. But that’s exactly what the F.B.I. did in this case. In order to identify more than 1…
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Oakland’s Privacy Commission Could Lead Nation on Surveillance Oversight
"“It’s really exciting,” said Catherine Crump, an assistant clinical professor at UC Berkeley’s law school, who has been following Oakland’s story. “It’s…
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FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images
"“At some point, the government investigation becomes indistinguishable from the crime, and we should ask whether that’s OK,” said Elizabeth Joh, a Univers…
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Can Silicon Valley help stem hate speech gone viral?
"“It’s a game of Whac-A-Mole,” said Beth Van Schaack, who served as senior adviser in the State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice and is a vis…
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The case for looking to the states, not the federal government, to protect your privacy
""The FTC just doesn't have time -- it's fabulous, but they have so many things on their plate," said Danielle Citron, a University of Ma…
Trusting Big Data Research
Abstract: Although it might puzzle or even infuriate data scientists, suspicion about big data is understandable. The concept doesn’t seem promising to most pe…