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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…
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Breaking Down Cox's Trial Over Subscriber Music Piracy
"Annemarie Bridy, a University of Idaho law professor and affiliate scholar at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, co-wrote a law pr…
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Judiciary chairman wants warrant exception in email privacy bill
""It unfortunately appears to be the case that some law enforcement officials make emergency disclosure requests because it is easier than getting leg…
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Lawmakers take up government's ability to get old emails without a search warrant
"Google's law enforcement director, Richard Salgado, told lawmakers that provisions under the old law "do not reflect the reasonable expectations…
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Battle over 1986 email-privacy law heats up in House debate
"But in his prepared testimony, Richard Salgado, Google's director for law enforcement and information security, argued that such an exemption for civi…
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SEC, Google at Odds Over E-Mail Privacy Bill
"“H.R. 699 represents an overdue update to ECPA that would ensure electronic communications content is treated in a commensurate manner to other papers and…