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Rubio and Cruz spar over domestic surveillance program
"To remedy this, the new law is "technology neutral," said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competi…
Privacy
Here’s how Washington weaponized America’s IT companies and why it backfired
Two months ago, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling that effectively invalidated the Safe Harbor arrangement, an agreement that big U.S. multinational…
OmniCISA Pits DHS Against the FCC and FTC on User Privacy
On Friday, Congress will vote on a mutated version of security threat sharing legislation that had previously passed through the House and Senate. These earlier…
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Police Are Putting GPS Trackers in Every Object You Can Imagine
"Trick or trap: In the Harvard Law Review's "Bait, Mask, and Ruse," Elizabeth Joh of the U.C. David School of Lawargues that allowing police…
The Transatlantic Data War
Last October, the European Court of Justice struck down the Safe Harbor agreement, a 15-year-old transatlantic arrangement that permitted U.S. companies to tran…
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Will Fear Change the Internet? Self-Policing Has Already Started
""The Internet is moving away from a place where anyone can say anything and find any information they want," Jennifer Granick, director of Civil…
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Ease of hiding terror plots online intensifies Web debate
"Because their livelihoods depend on it, technology companies are developing more secure encryption, which safeguards the lawful and unlawful alike, said B…
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CIS Joins ACLU and ACLU of Northern California in FOIA Request to Justice Department Seeking Info on Phone Unlocking Orders
In October, we covered a significant case in Brooklyn federal court that tackles the hot-button issue of whether tech companies should be compelled to provide l…
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Buy Buy Privacy
Planning to do some online holiday shopping? LSA Ph.D. student Darren Stevenson explains how advertisers get and use your personal data to predict what you’ll b…
NSA Surveillance Programs Are Far From Over Despite New Limitations
Here’s what the change really means for U.S. citizens. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) recently announced that as of “Sunday, Novemb…
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Barack Obama appeals to Silicon Valley for help with online anti-extremist campaign
"“If there’s a broad trend, it’s that companies have become more willing to take things down that are somehow involved in terrorist recruitment or propagan…
On Climate Change and Cyber Attacks
It is difficult to think of two issues with a greater potential to negatively impact both our environment and the global economy than climate change and cyber a…