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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…
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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…
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…