Google's action on revenge porn opens the door on right to be forgotten in US
Co-authored by Evan Selinger. Google’s recent decision to delist “revenge porn” from its search results is a big deal, and not just for victims. Beyond opposin…
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Uber Data Collection Changes Should Be Barred, Privacy Group Urges
"“With a cellphone, the I.P. address might get you a city or part of a city,” said Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford University.…
Opinion: It's time for an about-face on facial recognition
Co-authored with Evan Selinger. Until recently, concerns over facial recognition technologies were largely theoretical. Only a few companies could create datab…
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As Privacy Debate Rages, Is The Ad Industry Fresh Out Of Ideas?
"“Americans don’t think the trade-off of their data for personalized services is a fair deal,” said Omer Tene, VP of research for the International Associa…
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Online Harassment (HBO)
Online harassment is a major problem, but it’s rarely prosecuted. If only we’d been warned about this in the early days of the internet. CIS Affiliate Scholar…
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Business roundup: Google will remove photos upon request
"Opponents of revenge porn cheered the decision. “We’ve been talking to Google for all these years,” said Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of…
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Google to remove 'revenge porn' from search results
"University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron, an expert in online harassment and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, applauded the move. The sear…
Censoring ISIS’s online propaganda isn’t working out very well
David Fidler has a new brief for the Council on Foreign Relations examining U.S. public and private sector efforts to counter the online propaganda of the Islam…
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Congress' Fix for Cyberattacks May Hand the Government More of Your Data
"Cybersecurity experts also note that this legislation would do little, if anything, to thwart data breaches. "I'm not aware of a single computer…
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Apple wants to know if you use protection
""Data about reproductive health is very sensitive, but there are situations where maybe you want someone to know that," said Harlan Yu, principa…
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Posting Hulk Hogan's sex tape isn't revenge porn, but is it legal?
""Seeing the video tape of someone having sex is very different from journalists writing about it," Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crim…
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No Matter What Reddit Does, It’s Going to Alienate People
"“There’s no accountability, and in an anything-goes environment, there are no social norms on how to slow down harassing speech,” says Danielle Citron, a…