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Facebook Furor Is Overblown, Says CalPoly Ethicist
"It’s not clear that Facebook Inc.’s attempts to manipulate user emotion are an ethical lapse, says Patrick Lin, an associate professor in the philosophy d…
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New NSA 'Transparency Report' Raises More Questions Than It Answers
""How do you get almost 90,000 targets with one order?" wondered Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Interne…
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Why the Supreme Court May Finally Protect Your Privacy in the Cloud
"The ripples from Riley may extend to the NSA’s surveillance practices, too, says Jennifer Granick, director of Civil Liberties at Stanford Law School’s Ce…
SCOTUS & Cell Phone Searches: Digital is Different
Cross-posted from Just Security. Today, the Supreme Court unanimously invalidated warrantless searches of cell phones incident to arrest in Riley v. California…
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Courts may hear challenges to secret cell tracking devices after new ruling
"Brian Pascal, a research fellow at the University of California, Hastings, told Ars that he didn’t think that this new ruling would impact metadata gather…
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Government Downplaying Sensitivity Of Metadata Collected By NSA
"“The notion that [metadata] is just a phone number seems quite inaccurate,” Mayer, a law school graduate who is now pursuing a PhD in computer science, to…
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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…