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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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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…
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Why Online Harassment is Still Ruining Lives--And How We Can Stop It
""It implicitly suggests that threats online are no different [than threats made via other interstate communication methods]," Danielle Citron, a…
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Questions Remain After U.S. Supreme Court's Facebook Threat Decision
"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, had a similar observation, saying that the court did send a c…
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Nasa and Verizon plan to monitor US drone network from phone towers
"“I don’t see a privacy problem with leveraging cell towers,” says Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, where he teaches a class on…
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Back from the dead: US officials to ask secret court to revive NSA surveillance
"“Whether the NSA can restart this bulk collection is a novel question, and this decision should not be made in secret. The Fisa court should appoint an am…
Jacob Silverman - Hearsay Culture Show #239 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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Proving an Online Threat Is a Threat Just Got a Lot Tougher
"It’s a decision which, according to Danielle Citron, a professor of law at University of Maryland and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, upends…