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GM Wants You to Creepily Text Drivers by Scanning Their Plates
"With DiDi Plate, the threat is that the public would have access to information reserved for government officials, says professor Ryan Calo, a privacy and…
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Social media safety when posting pictures
"Cumberland School of Law Professor Woodrow Hartzog sees cases such as these and others dealing with online privacy and communication. Via email, Hartzog…
Are General Threats of Violence Against Groups Punishable?
Cross-posted from Forbes. Under the name “Foss Dark,” University of Washington student Keshav Bhide wrote online: Everything Elliot did is perfectly justified…
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3 ways Glenn Greenwald changed how I look at privacy
"Set aside any discussion about when and whether the data collection is justified. When one side has a lot of it, and the other none, there’s a problem. T…
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Free speech is a bad excuse for online creeps to threaten rape and murder
"There's no way to hear if there's laughter in his voice, for example. But we know he's angry, he's been fired from his job, he's been…
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Alleged Revenge Porn Webmaster Faces Trial in California
"“The law does not apply to him because he is not accused of posting nude photos intending to cause specific subjects emotional distress and knowing that t…
ECPA Limitations: Privacy Law and the Cloud
The era of cloud computing has introduced unprecedented computing power and convenience to the way we work and live. But the privacy laws that protect the conte…
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Supreme Court To Decide When A Facebook Death Threat Should Send You To Prison
"“To make a true threat, you don’t need to ever actually carry it out. You just need to terrify someone,” argues University of Maryland professor (and Forb…
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Musings from CFP '14
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to muse conceptually at the 2014 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in Warrenton, VA. Kudos to co-chairs Nuala…
New Ruling Shows the NSA Can’t Legally Justify Its Phone Spying Anymore
Cross-posted from Wired. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said no this week to tracking your movements using data from your cell phone without a warrant w…
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As a Stanford engineering student and lawyer, Jonathan Mayer discredits NSA claims
"Jonathan Mayer's education path is unusual: He has earned a Stanford law degree while working on his PhD in computer science. He did research with a f…
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Microsoft Fights U.S. Government Over Rights to Data on Foreign Servers
""It's a bad interpretation of the statute," Christopher Sprigman, a law professor at New York University, told Mashable. "This is just…