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Sex, lies and the Internet: The tale of Lena Chen
"Forty states have laws addressing cyber-harassment, according to a tally by the National Conference of State Legislatures, which make it illegal to intent…
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Mass Location Tracking: It’s Not Just For the NSA
Thanks to Edward Snowden we now understand that the NSA runs many dragnet surveillance programs, some of which target Americans. But a story yesterday from Wash…
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How advertisers became the NSA's best friend
"Tracking cookies offers the NSA the perfect system for following suspects across the web: it's pervasive, persistent, and for the most part, it's…
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Who’s tracking your porn?
"I asked Mayer if he believed there was reason to worry that one’s porn-browsing history could be sold — say, to a potential employer — or made public. “I’…
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Revenge Porn Site Operator Charged With Being a Creep (and Other Crimes)
"Ryan Calo writes in Forbes that Bollaert may be protected from some charges because though he facilitated the transaction, he didn't upload photos him…
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Could California's "revenge porn" arrest mean future relief for Staten Island victims?
"The websites themselves often have "broad immunity," Marcia Hofmann, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a membe…
Creative Revenge Porn Charges Filed In California
Cross-posted from Forbes. The Attorney General of California, Kamala Harris, announced today that her office is seeking criminal charges against the operator o…
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The NSA's Reach Might Be Even Bigger Than We Thought
"Now, new research from Stanford graduate students Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler suggests that the NSA's dragnet could be bigger -- much bigger.…
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NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
"Privacy advocates have pushed to create a "Do Not Track" system allowing consumers to opt out of such tracking. But Jonathan Mayer of Stanford&#…
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MetaPhone Stanford University crowdsourced project shows NSA’s three-hop reach
"To put it simply, said Mayer, “Suppose, for example, that a suspicious number is phoned by a Skype user; a different Skype user has called FedEx; and you…
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NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
"Marvin Ammori, a lawyer who advises technology companies including Google on surveillance issues, wrote in USA Today that "limiting bulk data collect…
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The NSA's Reach Might Be Even Bigger Than We Thought
"Now, new research from Stanford graduate students Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler suggests that the NSA's dragnet could be bigger -- much bigger.…