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Privacy and Depression Do Not Crash Planes
Cross-posted from The International Association of Privacy Professionals. Privacy does not cause airplanes to crash; neither does pilot depression. The wave of…
Privacy
Bloomberg Law: Using Facebook to Serve Divorce Papers
David Levine, a professor at Elon University School of Law, and Stephanie Blum, a founding partner at Reuben Racher & Blum, discuss a Manhattan Supreme Cour…
Promoting Norms for Cyberspace
The United States defined its preferred cyberspace norms—Internet openness, security, liberty, free speech, and with minimal government oversight and surveillan…
Why it’s so hard to create norms in cyberspace
The Council on Foreign Relations is launching a new set of Policy Briefs on cybersecurity policy – it published my contribution today. My brief responds to rece…
The European Privacy Judicial Decision of a Decade: Google v. Vidal-Hall
Over the past few years, Google has been involved in a slate of high-stakes privacy litigation, in issues ranging from the removal of offensive video footage to…
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UPDATE: Google, Mozilla revoke authority of CNNIC after breach of trust
""Security lapses like CNNIC's place journalists at elevated risk," said Geoffrey King, CPJ's Internet Advocacy program coordinator. &quo…
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Right to be Forgotten Must be Balanced with Freedom of the Press, Italian Privacy Authority Says
On March 31, 2015, the Italian Privacy Authority ("Authority") issued a decision stating that users cannot obtain the delisting of search results of r…
Sustainable Cybersecurity
The environmental situation facing many nations in the mid-to-late 20th century was bleak. Industrial waste caused the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland to catch fire…
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Yik Yak Is Testing a Photo Feature. What Could Go Wrong?
"“We have increasingly seen issues involving compromising sexually explicit images that are taken without people’s permission,” says Danielle Citron, autho…
Shaping Your Speech: Media Reform, Past and Present
From the First Amendment to net neutrality, How does media regulation affect what we say? The Sixth Annual Rebele Symposium addressed this topic with Mignon Cl…
China's CNNIC issues false certificates in serious breach of crypto trust
In a major breach of public trust and confidence, the Chinese digital certificate authority China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) certified false cr…
Yik Yak & Social Media Trends
Visit WYPR.org to listen to the podcast. Social media is full of hurtful, racist and sometimes threatening speech. We take a look at the hyper-localized and an…