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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…
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The Criminalization of Cryptography
Following the recent data breaches at Sony and the attacks at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, certain politicians have wasted no time calling for increased…
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UK And US To Stage Cyber War Games To Test Banks
"Andrew McLaughlin, former internet adviser to Mr Obama, said: "Slow hand clap for David Cameron, whose proposal to ban encrypted COMMS (leaving UK wi…
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NRC Report on Bulk Collection of SIGINT: Technical Options
Hot off the press ... Via the Abstract: The Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options study is a result of an activity called for in President…
Solon Barocas - Hearsay Culture Show #227 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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Tracking the trackers: Investigators reveal pervasive profiling of web users
""What's unfortunate is the huge gap of information - understanding what's happening on the Web and what users know about tracking," said…
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CISPA is back again. (Yes, again.)
Last evening we learned that Rep. Dutch Ruppersburger (D-MD) plans to again reintroduce the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)…