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Monica Lewinsky Is Back, but This Time It’s on Her Terms
"Had the Lewinsky story unfolded today, certainly the digital reality of it would have been worse (or at least more pungent). “They would have dug up her p…
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The U.S. can legally access your old emails and it wants to keep it that way
"Digital storage wasn't the same three decades ago. As Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Societ…
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Penn State Fraternity Photo Scandal: Kappa Delta Rho Case Raises Concerns About Unauthorized Sharing
"This sends the message that this stuff is not OK," said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor. "We're making clear it'…
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Social media sites may be better than the law at blocking revenge porn
"“It’s a wonderful turning point," said Danielle Citron, who has advised Facebook, Twitter and Reddit on their policies regarding nude imagery and is…
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…