Debate: Should The U.S. Adopt The 'Right To Be Forgotten' Online?
People don't always like what they see when they Google themselves. Sometimes they have posted things they later regret — like unflattering or compromising…
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Cyber Quantifiable Restrictions: The Requirements to Generate Agreed Restrictions on the Use of Cyber Capabilities
"Dr. Richard Forno from the University of Maryland concedes, “there is no international agreement over what level of cyber warfare is acceptable.” He furth…
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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…