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Did Twitter ignore basic security measures? Let's see.
Did Twitter ignore basic security measures? A cybersecurity expert explains a whistleblower’s claims Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County T…
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Letter to European Commission re proposed regulation on child sex abuse
Comments provided to the European Commission in response to its proposal for a regulation on fighting child sexual abuse online, which is available here. *…
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The End of Roe Will Bring About a Sea Change in the Encryption Debate
With the Supreme Court poised to rip away a constitutional right that’s been the law of the land for nearly half a century by overturning Roe v. Wade, it’s time…
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User Privacy vs. Platform Transparency: The Conflicts Are Real and We Need to Talk About Them
Pretty much everyone wants better information about how platforms propagate and govern online speech. We are probably about to get it. A major pending EU law wi…
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Ignoring EARN IT’s Fourth Amendment Problem Won’t Make It Go Away
This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act: * Blog posts here at the CIS blog: part 1, part 2, par…
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The EARN IT Act Is Back, and It’s More Dangerous Than Ever
This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act: * Blog posts at the CIS blog: part 1, part 2, part 3,…
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Thousands of Geofence Warrants Appear to Be Missing from a California DOJ Transparency Database
“When the providers are telling you one thing, and the government is telling you another, then something’s broken and it needs to be fixed,” said Albert Gidari,…
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Massachusetts has a chance to clean up our national privacy disaster
It's understandable if your pessimistic about the state of our privacy these days. Between the slow but steady creep of facial recognition, surveillance-bas…
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Privacy, Middleware, and Interoperability: Can Technical Solutions, Including Blockchain, Help Us Avoid Hard Tradeoffs?
Interoperability and distributed content moderation models have tremendous promise. They could temper major platforms’ power over public discourse, introducing…
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Tool Without A Handle: Tools For Vigilantes
Tool Without A Handle: Tools For Vigilantes “This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them…
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"Tool Without a Handle: Tools for Vigilantes"
“This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do…
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This Week President Biden’s Executive Order on Big Tech
To understand more about what the executive order means for Big Tech and how the FTC is likely to act on it, I spoke this week with Woodrow Hartzog, a professor…