California must lead on cybersecurity
By Jonathan Mayer and Edward W. Felten Special to The Bee No state has more at stake on cybersecurity than California. From Hollywood’s intellectual property…
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Is Your Data Safe at Healthcare.gov?
"Woodrow N. Hartzog, a law professor who studies privacy, said that without knowing more about how private companies use the Healthcare.gov data, it’s hard…
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Panel Rejects Woman's Bid for Anonymity in Fraud Case
"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and an expert on privacy issues, said the decision was "disappointing, but n…
The Latest Rules on How Long NSA Can Keep Americans’ Encrypted Data Look Too Familiar
Does the National Security Agency (NSA) have the authority to collect and keep all encrypted Internet traffic for as long as is necessary to decrypt that traffi…
Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Abstract: Most people believe that privacy and free speech are always at odds. People all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the problems of m…
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Why You Should Care About the Silk Road Trial
"Online black markets are likely to continue to be created and shut down. Yet this trial has also reminded us of the limits of technology. When the Interne…
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Snowden on Cyberwar: America Is Its Own Worst Enemy
"Scott Shackelford, an assistant professor of business, law and ethics at Indiana University, says that Snowden “has a point,” and that Stuxnet, because of…
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UK Intelligence Spying on Journalists Neglects Privacy, Press Freedom
"The UK government is not giving enough consideration to privacy and freedom of the press, and the recently revealed surveillance of journalists is yet mor…
Classifying media and encryption as a threat is danger to press freedom
The U.K. prides itself on its commitment to free expression, but the latest revelations of surveillance of journalists and calls by Britain's Prime Minister…
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How Your Facebook Likes Could Cost You a Job
"And Danielle Citron, a law professor who has studied privacy, worries that data on people’s personalities could be stored and used in contexts they never…
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The Murky Legal World of the DNA You Leave Behind at Restaurants
"Or think of it this way, says University of California Davis School of Law professor Elizabeth Joh, who’s proposed laws against DNA theft: Do you have any…
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Zombie cookies: How Verizon Wireless’s ‘supercookies’ make it even harder to avoid being tracked online
"With Turn, Mayer said he has found the smoking gun showing the risks to consumers posed by the Verizon Wireless supercookie are more than theoretical. &q…