Push, Pull, and Spill: A Transdisciplinary Case Study in Municipal Open Government
Abstract: Cities hold considerable information, including details about the daily lives of residents and employees, maps of critical infrastructure, and record…
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The Accidental Victims of Online Harassment
"University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron, who last year published a book called Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, says that when attacks on someone e…
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Dan Geer Keynote on “Intelligence” and His Remarkable Body of Work
Dan Geer – the Chief Information Security Officer at In-Q-Tel (the US Intelligence Community’s venture capital firm) and all-around-cyber-guru - recently gave a…
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The legal landscape of information security
"Some lawyers thrive on change and evolution, according to new Northeastern University School of Law professor Andrea Matwyshyn. She is a prime exam…
The All Writs Act, Software Licenses, and Why Judges Should Ask More Questions
Pending before federal magistrate judge James Orenstein is the government’s request for an order obligating Apple, Inc. to unlock an iPhone and thereby assist p…
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Faced with an iPhone they can’t unlock, cops again turn to Apple for help
"Outside legal scholars also noted that Apple has drawn the line between a locked iOS 7 device, which may technically be able to be opened, and fully encry…
Update on Apple’s Compelled-Decryption Case
Last week, we wrote about an order from a federal magistrate judge in New York that questioned the government’s ability, under an ancient federal law called the…
What is it that Homeland understands about international politics but that Robert Kagan simply doesn’t get?
Showtime’s hit show Homeland understands a key political dynamic that pundits and international relations scholars often fail to get. Global politics is less an…
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Tool Without a Handle: Quantum Paradox #3
This installment on the quantum paradox extends the privacy analysis to the adjacent field of free expression and content moderation. Free expression issues ar…
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Study: Government Privacy Programs Lack Sufficient Resources
"Seventy percent of government programs report less than sufficient budgets to meet their privacy needs, according to a recently released study from the In…
Lawful Hacking After the Encryption Debate
The Obama administration has apparently decided not to support exceptional access proposals that would provide law enforcement with the means to access data on…
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Federal judge shines a spotlight on the “going dark” debate
Last Friday, a New York federal judge joined in the contentious current debate over whether tech companies should be forced to provide law enforcement the abili…