What’s new in the U.S. cyber strategy
The Department of Defense has just issued a new cyber strategy, which perhaps provides the best public presentation of how the United States thinks about cybers…
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New Pentagon cyber strategy to discuss nation's offensive capabilities
"“This is a declaration that we're going to view offensive cyber capabilities as a major tool in our arsenal,” said Richard Forno, the director of the…
The new German spying scandal is a big deal
German media organizations, such as Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, are reporting on Thursday on a spying scandal that threatens to create new controversy over the NS…
Prof. Danielle Citron - Hearsay Culture Show #234 - 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…
China's Great Cannon: New weapon to suppress free speech online
China, rated as the eighth most censored country in the world, in a report released by CPJ today, has long had a strong line of defense against free speech onli…
Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Video recording of talk given April 21, 2015 at Stanford Law School. Why is it bad when the government or companies monitor our reading or web-surfing? We have…
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Waterloo region kids involved in child porn investigation
"“It’s become almost the norm,” said Shaheen Shariff, an associate professor at McGill University who researches cyberbullying and digital citizenship, wit…
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Technologists oppose CISA/information sharing bills
Today we sent a letter to lawmakers expressing security experts' opposition to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) as well as two other pending…
Why you have the right to obscurity
Co-authored with Evan Selinger. Some people argue that the Digital Age has eviscerated obscurity. They say shifts in the technological and economic landscapes…
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After GamerGate, Congress Is Grappling With Online Abuse
"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, told BuzzFeed News that while the norm-c…
Bait, Mask, and Ruse
Deception and enticement have long been tools of the police, but new technologies have enabled investigative deceit to become more powerful and pervasive. Most…
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President Obama steps up the fight against cyber threats
"For Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and a specialist in cyber law, the problem is broader. S…