NSA's Creative Interpretations Of Law Subvert Congress And The Rule Of Law
Cross-posted from Forbes. In the wake of today’s tremendously important ruling by the District Court for the District of Columbia that bulk collection of telep…
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Tug Of Authority Over Legal Gap In Online Privacy
""There is no one law in the United States that mandates that websites and phone applications have good data security," says law professor Woodro…
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NSA review to leave spying programs largely unchanged, reports say
"“If the NSA were to mistakenly classify domestic servers as outside the United States, even at low rates, it would acquire a substantial amount of purely…
How the NSA Piggy-Backs on Third-Party Trackers
Cross-posted from Slate. By Edward Felten and Jonathan Mayer Snooping on the Internet is tricky. The network is diffuse, global, and packed with potential tar…
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NSA review to leave spying programs largely unchanged, reports say
"Michelle Richardson, the ACLU’s surveillance lobbyist, said the organization would wait for a public release of the report to evaluate its merits, but sai…
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White House Task Force Urges Curb on NSA’s Bulk Data Collection
"“Nothing short of stopping the mass, suspicionless surveillance of Americans is acceptable,” said Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel at the ACLU’s W…
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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…
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…