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Aaron Swartz and Cybercrime Prosecutions
Aaron Swartz died this month two years ago. On the evening of January 21, the American Bar Association White Collar Crime Committee is hosting an event about Aa…
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CIS Affiliates 2014-2016 Announced
We are happy to announce the new 2014-2016 CIS Affiliates. The new affiliates are the following:Affiliate ScholarsMarvin AmmoriAnnemarie BridyPeter AsaroRyan Ca…
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“Tool Without A Handle”: Privacy and Regulation – An Expanded Rationale
In the previous blog, I noted that the logical next step in understanding “privacy as fairness” was to examine if it is possible to identify principles that wou…
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The MLAT roadmap - visualizing how the process actually works
When I first started working on mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), they were seen as the less glamorous, hard-working cousin of extradition treaties. An…
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Congress quietly expands surveillance (again)
As Congress winds down for the holidays, it delivers yet another lump of coal for the American people. Contained in the 2015 Intelligence Authorization Act is…
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21st century Facebook case results in 19th century Supreme Court arguments
""There's a common misconception that all speech is equally protected by the First Amendment," Hartzog said. "That's simply not true…
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Case Suggests How Government May Get Around Phone Encryption
"“It’s part of what I think is going to be the next biggest fight that we see on surveillance as everyone starts to implement encryption,” said Jennifer Gr…
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Do Online Death Threats Count as Free Speech?
"‘'We usually think of freedom of speech as enhancing liberty, but this is speech that takes away someone else’s liberty,'’ said Danielle Citron, a…
Prof. Ed Felten - Hearsay Culture Show #225 - 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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USA FREEDOM Act stalls
Last evening the Senate voted 58-42 to delay implementation of the USA FREEDOM Act with the goal of reforming, albeit modestly, America's controversial dome…
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Algorithms Are Great and All, But They Can Also Ruin Lives
"While it is clear why such emotive subjects would be considered ripe for The Formula, the central problem once again comes down to the spectral promise of…
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The Child Behind The DOJ’s iPhone Encryption Warning
"Civil-liberties experts say it’s unwise to make national policy based on a handful of cases. “There’s always going to be one case where some amount of inf…