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What Spymaster Barbie Can Teach Us About Privacy
Children make excellent intelligence assets. They trust strangers, lack socially-constructed boundaries about what is and is not private, and can be easily mani…
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The State Department’s cyber infrastructure is in need of an overhaul
""The State Department definitely has some work to do," said Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer affiliated with Stanford Law School&…
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The right to be forgotten from Google? Forget it, says U.S. crowd
"Digg CEO McLaughlin, who also is a lawyer and former director of public policy at Google, blasted the European court’s “irrelevant” and “inadequate” stand…
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Experts believe Clinton emails could be recovered
"Stanford computer researcher Jonathan Mayer pushed back at the notion that Clinton used a “homebrew” email system, and said it clearly had “nontrivial sec…
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How an advertising company put a ‘marijuana cookie’ on your computer to get weed legalized
“This kind of behavioral and demographic targeting has been going on [in business] since the early 2000s,” said Jonathan Mayer, a lawyer and computer scientist…
Dark Leviathan: The Failure of Silk Road’s Libertarian Utopia
George Washington University Professor, Henry Farrell, explains the role of Tor browser by human rights activists, civil libertarians and criminal organizations…
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A Few Brief Thoughts on Ferguson and Structural Surveillance
While reading the Department of Justice Report of their investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, I was reminded once again of the telos of surveillance…
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Clinton email domain shows effort for security and obscurity, say experts
"Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist at Stanford University, said historical records provided some evidence that the server could have been located in the…
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Tinder Plus and the Business of Online Dating
"Jonathan Mayer, a graduate fellow at Stanford University, launched a 2011 investigation that discovered how OK Cupid appeared to sell many categories of i…
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Hillary email controversy reminiscent of 1996 episode
“Obviously, if it were to emerge that there had been ‘leakage' of classified information, that would make this much less a transparency and accountability c…
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Experts: Clinton took dangerous path with email system
If Clinton used the private account for more than just unclassified discussions, that would cause national security concerns, said Brian Nussbaum, a cyber threa…
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Brianna Wu vs. the Troll Army
"Sex is a recurring theme in these sorts of attacks, says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of Hate Crimes in Cyber…