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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…
Beyond PGP, Protecting Reporters on an Institutional Level
News Organizations & Digital Security: Solutions to Surveillance Post-Snowden https://freedom.press/blog/2014/11/digital-security-conference-nov-7th-w...…
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Why the Constitution Can Protect Passwords But Not Fingerprint Scans
"“If you are being forced to divulge something that you know, that’s not okay,” said Marcia Hofmann, an attorney and special counsel to digital rights grou…
Prof. Frank Pasquale - Hearsay Culture Show #223 - 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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Silicon Valley Privacy Push Sets Up Arms Race With World’s Spies
“What a number of big companies have started to do is anchor their brands on privacy,” said Brian Nussbaum, a University of Albany professor. “Law enforcement h…
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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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Privacy Pros Want More Say In Marketing and Ad Decisions
""Marketing departments have become much more savvy, and sometimes aggressive about their data-use strategy," said Omer Tene, the IAPP's VP-…
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School shooting shows need to reach troubled kids via social media
""In many jurisdictions you could literally walk past a drowning person, do nothing and not be liable," said Ryan Calo, a UW professor specializi…
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Verizon, AT&T tracking their users with ‘supercookies’
"One security researcher, Stanford’s Jonathan Mayer, said, “I don’t know any computer scientist who takes that ‘It’s anonymous’ argument seriously. It’s be…