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…
Reviving Implied Confidentiality
Download the article from the Indiana Journal of Law. The law of online relationships has a significant flaw—it regularly fails to account for the possibility…
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No Exit: The Digital Edition
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor at Washington University School of Law, predicts that companies will soon adjust offers and prices based on when we are mos…
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Robotics and the New Cyberlaw
Cyberlaw is the study of the intersection between law and the Internet. It should come as no surprise, then, that the defining questions of cyberlaw grew out o…
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Italian spyware firm relies on U.S. Internet servers
"But when notified that an account appears to be linked to abusive or illegal activity, firms should investigate and take action, said Andrea Matwyshyn, as…
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Scientists explore safeguards for genomic data privacy
"(Narayanan, elsewhere, in talking about his doctoral research on problems with data anonymization, said his thesis, "in a sentence, is that the level…
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AboutTheData.com asks if you recognize your online self
""I was pegged as a motorcycling Christian who owns a Nissan Pathfinder and, I think, had two or three kids, all of which is entirely incorrect,"…
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TrustyCon: Privacy advocates challenge government's sweeping data access
"On Thursday morning, Chris Soghoian, principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Marcia Hofmann, who runs a law practice spec…
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As Police Monitor Social Media, Legal Lines Become Blurred
"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington law school who specializes in privacy issues, says police could run into trouble searching on the I…
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A cell phone wrapped in tin foil is just one of the ways Julia Angwin went off the grid in her new book
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, calls this the “mass production of bias,” in which companies use personal data to exploit peop…