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Reddit Has Banned Revenge Porn. Sort Of.
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, adds that Reddit’s rule sets a remarkably fair…
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Ontario students win charter challenge
"The ruling also shows how hard it can be for schools to balance increasingly high expectations of safety and also increasingly high standards of respect f…
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How Ukrainian immigrants used a Tor-like network to send uncensored letters during the Cold War
"“Everyone who came to the States was anxious to link up with friends and family back home but everything was monitored,” she said in a telephone interview…
CITP Luncheon Speaker Series: Victoria Stodden and David Levine - Basing Rules on Empirical Evidence: Transparency in Lawmaking
Full video available at CITP's YouTube Channel. The increasing use of empirical evidence in policy making is raising questions about rules that govern the…
How social science explains the Silk Road
I just wrote an article at Aeon, looking at the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the Texan who created and ran the online drugs market Silk Road. The piece uses…
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The Mutual Legal Assistance Problem explained
Following Edward Snowden revelations, it’s an understatement to say that governments were unhappy with their citizens' data being managed solely under US la…
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Your Kid's School Is Missing the Tech Revolution, and It's All Your Fault
"Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford who has studied the security practices of education technology startups, says he’s been horrif…
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Lawsuits’ Lurid Details Draw an Online Crowd
"In interviews, several plaintiffs’ lawyers said the current online environment was already deterring potential clients from filing suit. Now a Google sear…
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Legal patchwork rules Internet of Things and its users
"Besides favoring limits on how much data the gadgets sweep up and retain, they want users of the devices to control what's collected about them, who e…
Dark Leviathan
The Hidden Wiki holds the keys to a secret internet. To reach it, you need a special browser that can access ‘Tor Hidden Services’ – websites that have chosen t…
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Hunter Moore Is Probably Going to Prison. How Scared Should Revenge Porn Kingpins Be?
"Bollaert and Meyering got busted for extortion after charging victims hundreds of dollars to remove their photos from their sites. So Moore may be going a…
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Activists in the war against revenge porn are finally seeing results
"Victims can sue the person who leaked the images and 16 states now have criminal cyberstalking or harassment laws that criminalize such situations, she sa…