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Poll: Tech Companies Encroach Too Much on Personal Data
"Public sensitivity about privacy was heightened by revelations of U.S. surveillance activities by the National Security Agency, as leaked by former spy co…
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The FTC and Privacy and Security Duties for the Cloud
Third-party data service providers, especially providers of cloud computing services, present unique and difficult privacy and data security challenges. While m…
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Pornography, Children and Parents
"To the Editor: The article throws into stark relief the differences between the United States and Britain and why we should be grateful for the First Ame…
The Content Collection Controversy
The following is audio of the conference last week in Austin hosted by the Intelligence Studies Project, a joint venture of the Strauss Center and Clements Cent…
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With California’s red light cameras, are pictures admissible evidence?
"“This is the first case I’ve seen precisely along these lines,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law at the Cumberland School of Law at Sanford Univer…
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Ad tracking: Is anything being done?
""We don't need to tell the Web server nearly so much as we do right now," says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University grad student and former…
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Privacy Watch: Microsoft Backpedals On Email Snooping, Government Increases Google Data Requests
"In a company blog posting, Google legal director Richard Salgado noted that “Government requests for user information in criminal cases have increased by…
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5 Things You Need to Know About Obama's NSA Proposal
""Our phone records are sensitive, but so are our financial records, Internet information, email data," said Michelle Richardson, the ACLU's…
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Will Target’s Lawsuit Finally Expose the Failings of Security Audits?
"“As data security becomes a progressively more important aspect of corporate governance, and as consumers become progressively more concerned with the sta…
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President's plan insufficient to rein in NSA, privacy advocates say
""USA Freedom is more comprehensive and it's essential that it pass to fix much of what is wrong with domestic surveillance," Jennifer Granic…
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After Twitter Ban, Turkey’s Netizens Find YouTube Blockage a Breeze
"“It’s an escalation of censorship efforts,” said Andrew McLaughlin, who was a policy director at Google from 2003 to 2009 and worked on Turkish issues.&qu…
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The Case for Making Revenge Porn a Federal Crime
"As Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who studies cyber-harassment, put it to me in an email this morning, "A federal criminal l…