"Ahead of Obama’s announcements, the political landscape on surveillance is “absolute chaos”, said Michelle Richardson, the ACLU’s surveillance lobbyist.…
"GREENE: So make the case for me, if you can, that Edward Snowden deserves some kind of clemency. GRANICK: Well, we would not know what our government is…
"Rejecting Google’s reasoning, Koh effectively reinterpreted old U.S. privacy laws for the Internet age, said Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University doctora…
Download the paper here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2376209 The Scored Society: Due Process for Automated Predictions Danielle Keats C…
""Before, images might have been shown or passed around to other kids in person, which is bad enough," says Danielle Citron, a law professor at t…
"“We’re still guessing,” says Richard Salgado, Google’s director of information security and law enforcement. “We’re not the author of those slides. We hav…
Cross-posted from Forbes. A well-intentioned grandmother accidentally hurt her grandkids’ feelings. She took screenshots of their delightful Instagram photos a…
"Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who focuses on Internet threats, charted the popular response to Internet death and rape threats i…
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…
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…
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…
"The National Security Agency likes to claim that intelligence officers are only collecting the phone records of millions of Americans, safely omitting the…