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Film screening takes on cyber bullying
"The 23-minute, 2012 documentary was produced by Alberta’s BearPaw Media Productions. It features interviews with Canadian bullying expert Dr. Shaheen Shar…
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Teachers are low on the list of people students turn to when cyberbullied
"“If you’re speaking to kids as audiences, it’s not going to be digested. They have anti-bullying program burnout,” said Shaheen Shariff, a professor of ed…
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Alleged Google Glass attack victim accused of recording neighbors
"“If you want to surreptitiously record someone, there are much better things than Glass,” University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo said. “The reas…
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Judge rebukes Feds for overbroad search warrant applications for e-mail
"“I think it reflects a growing recognition that we can't treat e-mail as a separate, less-protected form of communication, either as a matter of law o…
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What Do You Do When You Know They're Watching?
The ongoing metadata/content debate finally seems to be winding down. In a blog post last week, Stanford researchers Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler publish…
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What My Droid's Metadata Says About Me
"Mayer, in a phone interview, says he hopes his research brings "scientific clarity" to the privacy properties of metadata. "There's a g…
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Meet iBeacon: Location tracking to help you shop
""I think that iBeacon is part of a dangerous trend," says Ryan Calo, assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattl…
What can you find with MetaData
Watch the full video at PBS NewsHour. "A conversation with Jonathan Mayer of Stanford on recent experiments studying metadata information that can be coll…
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Top Democrat on House intelligence panel offers new NSA reform plan
"“This certainly doesn’t go as far as the USA Freedom Act,” said Michelle Richardson, the ACLU’s surveillance lobbyist. “Of course, the devil will be in t…
Understanding Cybersecurity
Listen to the full panel on the World Affairs Council website. Cybersecurity in both the public and private sectors is of increasing importance and growing con…
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Volunteers in metadata study called gun stores, strip clubs, and more
"“At the outset of this study, we shared the same hypothesis as our computer science colleagues—we thought phone metadata could be very sensitive,” Jonatha…
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Bethesda Lawyer Grappling with Balance between National Security and Privacy
"Michelle Richardson of the American Civil Liberties Union said her organization “was concerned about (the privacy board’s) functioning and being understaf…