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Will the Paris Attacks Lead Law Enforcement to Crack Down on Encryption Apps?
""It's a great PR moment (for the government) and it's going to affect people's civil liberties," says Jennifer Granick, an attorney…
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FTC: Misleading Privacy Policies Could Trigger An Enforcement Action
"“There is a common misconception that websites that have privacy policies are subject to rigorous federal protections when, generally, that is the opposit…
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Quinn: After Paris attacks, technology is the scapegoat
""Nothing has really changed," said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society. W…
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The FTC Seeks Clarity On Cross-Device Tracking – But Opt-Out Remains A Murky Mire
"“If it’s hard for researchers to figure out what’s going on, it’s hard for the general public,” said privacy researcher and Stanford University computer s…
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Is Hello Barbie every parent’s worst nightmare?
"“Parents should never spy on their kids without their consent,” said Danielle Citron, a privacy expert and University of Maryland law professor who studie…
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US Cops Are Asking Facebook to Wiretap More Chats Than Ever Before
"As we keep moving our lives online, criminals do the same, so we can expect that police will follow and investigate crimes online. But the latest governme…
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Report: Atlanta Police Body Camera Policy Needs Revising
"Harlan Yu, who worked on the civil rights report, said the report is meant to help communities. “You know what we've been hearing from departments ac…
A Return to Authoritarianism in Egypt
Lawyers for human rights lawyer and journalist Hossam Bahgat have confirmed that Bahgat was detained Sunday by military officials, apparently in retaliation for…
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Police endanger civil rights with body camera policies, report says
"The only cities to earn uniformly negative results were Atlanta and Ferguson, a city the group chose to examine in the wake of the controversy following t…
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If We Want to Throw Body Cameras on Every Police Officer, We're Going to Need Better Laws
""Every department has room to improve, even the best in the nation," Harlan Yu, principal at civil rights consulting firm Upturn, told Mic. &quo…
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Court Says Tracking Web Histories Can Violate Wiretap Act
"“This is a pretty big deal for law enforcement,” says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford fellow in computer science and law whose research into Google’s circumven…
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Always Watched | The Digital Shift 2015
"Neil M. Richards, Professor of law at Washington University School of Law, MO, explained that while the enduring values of privacy and free speech have al…