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Does the NSA minimize Americans metadata?
Today’s reporting by the Intercept calls into question whether the NSA minimizes so-called metadata relating to Americans’ digital communications and telephone…
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Intercept Reporting Raises Broader Metadata Minimization Question
Cross-posted from Just Security. Does the NSA minimize Americans metadata? Today’s reporting by the Intercept calls into question whether the NSA minimizes so-…
Access To User Data: If Microsoft Wins, Do Startups And Innovators Lose?
With user trust at an all-time low, keeping the FBI’s hands off foreign users’ data seems like good business sense for U.S. companies. Microsoft says it’s fight…
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The Invention of the “Snapshot” Changed the Way We Viewed the World
"Previously, in the age of the studio photo, “you had to sit there and pose. You not only had to give your consent, you had to cooperate a lot,” notes Ryan…
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How To Keep Internet Trolls And Harassers From Winning
"“When it was a very famous and beloved person’s daughter, Twitter got involved,” says Citron. “But when it’s an average person victimized by revenge porn,…
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Mich. man accused of posting nude photos of ex to Facebook
""Law enforcement is behind the times on this," said Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law and the a…
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Foley video, photos being scrubbed from Twitter
"Andrew McLaughlin was the director of global public policy for Google from 2004 to 2009, and served as a deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United Sta…
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Everyone Knows Privacy Is About Power. Now What?
In a recent op-ed, author Evgeny Morozov claims that we tend to think of privacy in terms of control over personal information rather than power or influence. “…
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Researchers aim to develop hack-proof layer of cyber protection
""There is promise to this sort of technology, and it's not surprising to see NSF investing in this sort of research," said University of Mar…
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Security Research and the Law: What You Need to Know
"According to Hoffman, one potential legal landmine is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). One of its key provisions states that,"it is illegal t…
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Google snoops on Gmail to catch pedophiles
"Ryan Calo, a tech policy expert at the University of Washington School of Law, said that if Google "decided to take it upon themselves to police othe…
Prof. Frederick Schauer - Hearsay Culture Show #221 - 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…