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House panel considers bill to protect email privacy
"The head of law enforcement for Google, Inc. said the giant tech company supports the bill as a way to protect the privacy of its customers. "Users…
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Free Expression Gaps in the General Data Protection Regulation
This is one of a series of posts about the pending EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and its consequences for intermediaries and user speech online.…
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The Practice and Theory of Secure Data Releases
Ira Rubinstein & Woodrow Hartzog, Anonymization and Risk, 91 Wash. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2016), available on SSRN. In the current Age of Big Data, companies…
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People Like You
Cross-posted from Yale Journal of Law & Technology. For more than a decade, the policy debates around informational privacy have focused on the fickle noti…
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With this hire, the FCC could soon get tougher on privacy and security
"The Federal Communications Commission has hired Jonathan Mayer, a rising star in privacy circles, to serve as its technical lead for investigations into t…
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FCC hires a privacy guru to help lead its telecom investigations
"If you want proof that the Federal Communications Commission is getting serious about privacy, you only need to look at its latest recruit. The agency has…
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FCC Hires Online Tracking Expert Jonathan Mayer
"In a move that signals a focus on Web privacy, the Federal Communications Commission has tapped Jonathan Mayer to serve as chief technologist of its enfor…
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CTIC’s Vagle on intelligence, surveillance laws in wake of Paris attacks
"In the wake of the recent attacks in Paris and recent comments on intelligence gathering made by CIA Director John Brennan, Penn Law talked to Jeffrey Vag…
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UAlbany hosts forum on Paris attacks
"University professors Brian Nussbaum and Jim Steiner, and Rick Mathews, Director of the National Center for Security & Preparedness were among the pan…
Two new initiatives will hold tech companies accountable on press freedom
The launches of OnlineCensorship.org today and Ranking Digital Rights on November 3 will ensure technology companies serve--rather than squelch--the free flow o…
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Experts weigh benefits, problems of open data
"Speaking on a panel on the topic hosted by the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center in Washington, D.C., Ryan Calo, assistant professor of the Univers…
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Blaming cryptography (and Snowden) again.
Less than 2 days after the Daesh attacks in Paris, technology was, predictably, named as an accomplice -- if not an enabler -- of terrorism, crime, and other ne…