How Can We Protect the Internet Against Surveillance
In this talk, EFF's Technology Projects Director Peter Eckersley surveyed the state of Internet security and surveillance in the wake of Edward Snowden'…
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Obama Policy on Zero Days Craps Out
Yesterday afternoon, the White House put out a statement describing its vulnerability disclosure policies: the contentious issue of whether and when government…
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First European Constitutional Court Suspends Data Retention After the Decision of the Court of Justice of EU
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The Branding of a Bug: How Heartbleed Became a Household Name
"Still, how Heartbleed was transformed from a security hole in an obscure part of open-source encryption software into a brand recognized around the world…
The Changing Attitudes Towards Cyber Gender Harassment: Anonymous as a Guide?
In 2007 technologist Kathy Sierra faced graphic rape and death threats on her blog Creating Passionate Users and in her email inbox. Around the same time group…
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Let The Sun Shine In: WaPo and the Magistrates' Revolt
Over at Just Security, I have a new piece on the Washington Post's interesting story about the increasingly aggressive role some federal magistrate judges a…
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Quinn: Supreme Court should clarify Fourth Amendment rights in the digital age
""Some members of the court will certainly try to consider the place mobile devices play in modern life," said Jennifer Granick, director of civi…
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Good Fences Make Better Data Brokers
Woodrow Hartzog, Chain Link Confidentiality, 46 Georgia L. Rev. 657 (2012) available at SSRN. Since at least the early 2000s, privacy scholars have illuminated…
How Technology Broke Privacy
One of the greatest challenges of living in the future is that it mostly looks just like the present. We have self-driving cars, commercial spaceflight, powerfu…
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Search Me: Managing Unwanted Search Results On Your Name
This week I had a request for privacy information that went something like this: I am starting a new project and expect people to search my name online. There…
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This Guy Hunts Down The Men Behind Revenge Porn Websites
"Citron and Franks both admire his work, but say it can’t stem the larger tide. “It is a drop in the bucket,” says Citron. “There are still over 40 sites d…
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Researcher proposes alert tool for managing online privacy risks
"What we need is a way of getting all the relevant privacy information in a timely, applicable and focused fashion. Arvind Narayanan, Assistant Professor o…