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US appeals court weighs GPS tracking, warrants
""These are the types of decisions that should be made by judges," lawyer Catherine Crump argued Wednesday for the American Civil Liberties Union…
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Lessons from the Elliot Rodger Attack: Taking Online Threats Seriously
Cross-posted from Forbes. To New York Times reporter Jennifer Medina, Professor Adam Winkler wisely remarked that although there isn’t an easy solution to mass…
Even as cyberwar rages, we can't really decide what cyberwar is
Listen to the full interview at PRI. "Rick Forno can describe in a broad sense what it means. He directs the University of Maryland Baltimore County's…
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Facebook removes fan pages glorifying California killer
"Although sites such as Facebook and YouTube try to create a community with civil, respectful discourse, they are "often outpaced" by the amount…
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New College grads, many in costume, hear powerful keynote message
"Jennifer Granick, herself a New College 1990 graduate, delivered a powerful commencement address concerning threats to the Fourth Amendment of the United…
Charges Against Chinese, and U.S. Policy on Hacking
Cross-posted from The New York Times Opinion Pages. To the Editor: Re “5 in China Army Face U.S. Charges of Cyberattacks” (front page, May 20): On Monday, fe…
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California Wants to Make Online Privacy Policies a Little More Understandable
"Since the dawn of the Internet, the design of privacy notices has remained much the same—miles of dense print that it would take a heroic effort to read.…
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'Do not track'? Oh what the heck, go ahead
""The original idea was to replace a variety of opt-out mechanisms with a browser preference," said Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professo…
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California offers privacy policies and do not track disclosures guide
""I applaud the California Attorney General's publication of best practices for communicating with citizens about privacy. Their common-sense reco…
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USA Freedom Act: Oh, Well. Whatever. Nevermind.
Over at Just Security, I have a post about the latest iteration of the USA Freedom Act. Basically, civil liberties groups are withdrawing support for the bill b…
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Lavabit’s Owner Goes Public: His Legal Ordeal Makes For Bad Law
Over at Just Security, I have a post about Ladar Levinson's legal tribulations connected to DOJ's efforts to get his service's encryption key. I arg…
The Right Response to the “Right to Delete”
Cross-posted from Recode.net. Co-authored by Omer Tene and Jules Polonetsky. Last week’s decision by the European Court of Justice, requiring Google to delete…