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Who Should Be Unmasked on the Internet?
"A new proposal from the cyberlaw scholar Danielle Citron in her new book, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, suggests how sites dedicated to protecting its users’…
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A cop may be following you everywhere
Cross-posted from CNN. The crackdown on protesters after the police shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, highlighted that more and more, police…
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“Tool Without A Handle” “Justified Regulation (Part 2 – Privacy)
This blog moves from discussion of cases of justified and widely supported regulation to examine current topics that are more complex and more hotly contested.…
All States Should Outlaw Revenge Porn
Cross-posted from Slate. This essay is excerpted from Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, by Danielle Citron, published by Harvard University Press. “Jane” allowed her…
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Police want back doors in smartphones, but you never know who else will open them
"“People are starting to be sensitized that there is a right way and a wrong way to do data security,” said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties a…
Facebook calls in the philosophers
Facebook's announcement — establishing guidelines, review processes, training and enhanced transparency for research projects — marks another milestone in t…
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Facebook Promises Deeper Review of User Research, but Is Short on the Particulars
"“This is a company whose lifeblood is consumer data. So mistrust by the public, were it to reach too critical a point, would pose an existential threat to…
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A British troll was just jailed for his tweets. Here’s why that will (probably!) never happen in the U.S.
"“We have a much higher standard in the U.S. when it comes to what constitutes threatening speech,” Citron explained. And even if a Twitter threat or a fri…
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Can you shoot down a drone on your land? New incident raises self-defense questions
"“Generally speaking, tort law frowns on self-help and that includes drones,” says Ryan Calo, a robotics and cyber-law scholar at the University of Washing…
The battle over which company has your number
Listen to the full piece at Marketplace.org. "Now Neustar might lose the contract to Ericsson, which is based in Sweden. Neustar says this would be bad fo…
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The Solace of Oblivion
"Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said recently. “When it comes to privacy, the United St…
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Open Internet Central to U.S. Trade Policy
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security at the search giant, notes that several countries have responded to the Snowden reve…