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Uber tracking raises privacy concerns
"The FTC has cracked down on companies that violate their own privacy policies on how they handle data, but have a lot of latitude as long as they comply w…
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Profiles in Online Identity Cleansing
"Ryan Calo, an assistant law professor at the University of Washington, said many states sold, rented or granted access to criminal records and other infor…
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Legal expert Woodrow Hartzog weighs in on privacy issues
"Woodrow Hartzog, a Samford University professor and expert on privacy law, spoke Monday in Carroll Hall about the flaws surrounding public information in…
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Profiles in Online Identity Cleansing
"A growing chorus of voices is worried that the emergence of paid services that promise to clean up data could result in another case of the haves and have…
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AT&T suggests it needs to protect your cellphone location privacy
""It's an important first step, since telcos historically haven't done much to resist lax surveillance procedures," Jonathan Mayer, a pri…
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Victims Of Online Threats Say Perpetrators Aren't Being Caught
"The response Watson got is a little too common, says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland who has studied online harassment. Ci…
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The director of civil liberties for the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School discusses net neutrality, privacy and the NSA.…
The Surveillance State’s Legalism Isn’t About Morals, It’s About Manipulating the Rules
Cross-posted from Just Security. Margo Schlanger has written a great article forthcoming in the Harvard National Security Journal about intelligence legalism,…
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What the Law Can (and Can't) Do About Online Harassment
"At its most basic legal definition, “cyber-stalking is a repeated course of conduct that’s aimed at a person designed to cause emotional distress and fear…
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PCLOB: Defining Privacy Interests, 2/2
Panel 2 of today's PCLOB public hearing explored privacy interests within a counterterrorism context with an emphasis on what impact technology has upon it.…
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PCLOB: Defining Privacy Interests, 1/2
Today I am attending the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board hearing on "Defining Privacy" here in Washington, DC. Four sessions are planned…
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Oops! Health Insurer Exposes Member Data
"“Hospitals have moved away from using ordinary email because there are all sorts of ways in which it can be compromised, intercepted in transit, or seen b…