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‘Gone Girl’ Suspect Confesses to Reporter—As FBI Listens In
"“I think it’s a good motion,” says Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “The officers manipulate…
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Ashley Madison Hack Creates Ethical Conundrum For Researchers
"Jennifer Granick, a law professor at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that the legal questions around the hack are still murky, but a fe…
The Difficulty With Metaphors and the Fourth Amendment
The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution seems straightforward on its face: At its core, it tells us that our “persons, houses, papers, and effects” are to b…
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Researcher catches AT&T injecting ads on free airport Wi-Fi hotspot
"When computer scientist Jonathan Mayer was in Washington Dulles International Airport last week, he logged onto an AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot and soon noticed…
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AT&T Injecting Ads Into Its Wi-Fi Hotspot Data Streams
"AT&T appears to be the latest company to use its perceived power over the conduit to manipulate the message. Stanford computer science and legal lectu…
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As legacy media cuts back on FOIA, digital-only news outlets step in
"BuzzFeed, which has also quietly ramped up its FOIA work, plans to get even more aggressive in the face of the record number of government denials, BuzzFe…
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Government Cheating on the Sotomayor Surveillance Scale
In her concurring opinion in US v. Jones, 565 U.S. ___ (2012), Justice Sonia Sotomayor brought up a crucial point regarding a democracy's natural acceptance…
Leave the cheaters in peace: If you poke around the Ashley Madison data, you're aiding and abetting the hackers
BY DANIELLE KEATS CITRON , MARAM SALAHELDIN When a person’s confidential data is exposed in violation of a legitimate expectation of privacy, it shouldn’t matt…
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Startups in the Forefront of Battle Against Hackers
"“New companies that are trying to break into the market sometimes employ aggressive marketing tactics that overpromise what the company’s technology can d…
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Fake or real? Ashley Madison complaints claim accounts not legitimate
"“Often when you have numerous complaints saying the same thing, where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Samford Universit…
The Atlantic Divide on Privacy and Speech
Neil M. Richards Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law Kirsty Hughes University of Cambridge Andrew T Kenyon (ed), Comparative Defamation and…
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Ethics, law collide in questions over spotlighting Ashley Madison leak
"“Some people will say, `Well, they broke the law, they hacked into this private company’s computers and stole data.’ Yeah, that’s true. But from the other…