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"Revenge Porn" Website Creator Hunter Moore Arrested
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and the author of the upcoming book "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace," told CBS News…
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I See You: The Databases That Facial-Recognition Apps Need to Survive
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. Privacy concerns have been ignited by “NameTag,” a facial-recognition app designed to reveal personal information after analyzi…
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"Revenge Porn" Website Creator Hunter Moore Arrested
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and the author of the upcoming book "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace," told CBS News…
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OfficeMax sends dad letter with line, 'Daughter Killed In Car Crash'
""This particular instance perfectly exemplifies a variety of concerns that people have about … vulnerability-based marketing," Calo said. "…
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OfficeMax's 'Dead Daughter' Gaffe Torpedoes Big Data
"The blunder “exemplifies very efficiently all the troubling things about data-driven marketing,” Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law at the University o…
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New documents: NSA provided 2-3 daily “tips” to FBI for at least 3 years
"“Furthermore, given how broadly it's possible to define the word ‘tip,’ we have no information on how useful those thousand tips were,” Brian Pascal,…
OfficeMax Letter To 'Daughter Killed In Car Crash' Could Be Privacy's Whale Song
Cross-posted from Forbes. The anti-whaling movement failed and failed, until it didn’t. The movement took off when, in the late nineteen-sixties, scientists a…
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Obama lays down new limits on NSA, with more reforms to come
"“Some of the most disturbing revelations that came out over the last few months were the ones surrounding the NSA's attempts to weaken or circumvent e…
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After Obama's NSA Speech, Tech Companies Wait and See
""Because they've negotiated this with the government, we still don't even have a concrete sense of the number of the things" they hand o…
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Obama NSA Reform Speech Promises Modest Changes
""It’s a good first step, but it is not nearly as far as his Review Group recommended nor as far as Congress has proposed," Michelle Richardson,…
Promote Transparency, Secure the Internet, and Codify the Reforms
Cross-posted from Slate. The president on Friday will give a long-awaited speech addressing what he intends to do about National Security Agency surveillance p…
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Surveillance threatens U.S. business climate, democracy, say Stanford researchers
""We are no longer seen as a safe business climate," said Aleecia M. McDonald, director of privacy at Stanford's Center for Internet and Soci…