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Former Tiversa employee at center of House probe of Pittsburgh firm
"It might be a valuable function to discover that a company's secret information has been disclosed, but it's harder to make a case for what to do…
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For the First Time Since 9/11, Congress Checks the Security State
"Stanford legal scholar Jennifer Granick wrote before Sunday’s vote that the Senate shouldn’t rush to pass the Freedom Act as is. It “was negotiated at a t…
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Washington wisdom on data collection shown up by Justice Department verdict
"“The American people have learned the hard way to be skeptical of such scare-mongering,” said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Un…
The long arms of the right to be forgotten
"A year ago, a European Court said people had a right to demand Google take down certain search results about them. Theright to be forgotten was born. “Th…
A Sunset Is A Beautiful Thing
In the wake of a recent appellate court’s decision that the NSA’s domestic dragnet collection of phone call records is illegal, political support for maintainin…
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Why Surveillance Matters (to All of Us)
The current debate in Congress over whether to allow Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act to expire has revived the interest of many in the question of surveillan…
Prof. Arvind Narayanan - Hearsay Culture Show #238 - 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…
Siri Is Judging You
In a fresh and recent whitepaper, Brookings Institution senior fellow Benjamin Wittes and law student Jodie Liu turn the standard privacy argument on its head:…
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Online dating is more normal than ever. But it also comes with new risks.
"Unfortunately, consumers don't have a lot of options for evaluating the security of dating services, according to Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist…
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Regarding the Politics of Surveillance Reform
Since 9/11 the spectre of 'terrorism' and the ethos of what I term 'Everwar' and the permanent state of national emergency have permeated the Co…
Sen. Paul’s Great Surveillance ‘Filibuster’ and What to Expect Next
By Patrick Eddington and Jennifer Granick Senator Rand Paul, joined by Senator Wyden and other surveillance reform advocates, as well as five members of the Ho…
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Cyberattack affects 1.1 million CareFirst customers
""The information they got may or may not be useful directly, but it could help a bad guy get more clues about a person's identity," he said.…