UN report promotes encryption as fundamental and protected right
On Wednesday, Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye will present his report on international legal protection for encryption and an…
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As Senate rejects cyber bill, privacy trumps security concerns
"Taken together, those measures could amount to a new backdoor for government surveillance, according to some experts. The revelation earlier this month th…
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Hulk Hogan is fighting for the privacy of the world’s sex tapes
"Gawker could have told the story and described the video (as it did, in great detail, which you can still read, even though the video has been taken down…
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Wearable Technology Creates New Legal Problems
""The Silicon Valley style is to move forward with the cool technology," said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center for Technology, Inn…
The hack on the U.S. government was not a ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ (but it was a very big deal)
The U.S. government has suffered a hacking attack that has potentially revealed highly sensitive information about millions of government employees. Some commen…
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Things We STILL Need To Know About Domestic Spying
In two years, section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act will expire. It is essential the public to have confidence that any reforms to section 702 will actually ad…
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Things We STILL Need To Know About Domestic Spying
In two years, section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act will expire. It is essential the public to have confidence that any reforms to section 702 will actually ad…
Computers Are Getting Better Than Humans at Facial Recognition
Perceiving whether someone is sad, happy, or angry by the way he turns up his nose or knits his brow comes naturally to humans. Most of us are good at reading f…
Phone Carriers Tight-Lipped On How They Will Comply With New Surveillance Law
""The phone companies may already have data retention obligations under the Communications Act, but there's no additional obligation as a result o…
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Renowned Defender of Internet Privacy and Civil Liberties, Jennifer Granick, to Keynote Black Hat USA 2015
Read the entire press release here. SAN FRANCISCO, June 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Black Hat, the world's leading family of information security events…
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Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border
"The N.S.A.’s activities run “smack into law enforcement land,” said Jonathan Mayer, a cybersecurity scholar at Stanford Law School who has researched priv…
New Snowden Documents Reveal Government Collection Of Online Data
"WELNA: It could indeed. Hackers, by definition, are trying to break into other people's computer accounts and steal their information, so monitoring t…