Why Grandma Shouldn't Have Posted Instagram Pics On Facebook
Cross-posted from Forbes. A well-intentioned grandmother accidentally hurt her grandkids’ feelings. She took screenshots of their delightful Instagram photos a…
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Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet
"Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who focuses on Internet threats, charted the popular response to Internet death and rape threats i…
Just the Right Amount of Cyber Fear
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. If our leaders don’t even use email, can we trust them to make decisions about our brave new e-world? In a book released a few…
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2013: The Year of Privacy
If there ever was a “year of privacy,” surely it was 2013. A year that ends with dictionary.com selecting “privacy” as “word of the year;” with privacy making f…
Prediction: Fourth Amendment Evolves in 2014
Cross-posted from Just Security. When should courts follow legal precedent and when should the law change? This is a debate that underlies this month’s contra…
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Stanford Researcher Proves NSA Can Probably Identify Individuals From Phone Records
"The National Security Agency likes to claim that intelligence officers are only collecting the phone records of millions of Americans, safely omitting the…
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Spy on Your Metadata
Co-authored with Patrick Mutchler. This is a project of the Stanford Security Lab. Just over a month ago we launched MetaPhone, an Android app for crowdsourcin…
The best week for privacy in a long time
Cross-posted from CNN. When President Barack Obama responded to this summer's torrent of disclosures about the National Security Agency by commissioning a…
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Tool Without a Handle: “Getting A Grip”
“Tool Without A Handle: Getting a Grip” In my last post, I explored how law influences use of information technology through both rules and a concomitant degr…
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Foreigners and the Review Group Report: Part 2
Yesterday, I wrote that the report from the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies--"Liberty And Security In A Changing W…
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President's Review Board Says Protect Thy Neighbor’s Privacy
Today’s report from the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies–”Liberty And Security In A Changing World”—is impressive in a n…
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Intelligence Revew Group Report Released
The much-anticipated Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies report (PDF) "Liberty and Security in a Changing World" was released…