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Revenge porn websites taking advantage of weak privacy laws
""You have a huge uphill battle," said attorney Colette Vogele, co-founder of Without My Consent, an organization helping victims of online harra…
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New FISC Pen Register Opinion: It’s Just a Matter of Time Before Somebody Gets Hurt
Cross-posted from Just Security. Once again, the NSA has conducted illegal spying. New documents reveal the National Security Agency’s (NSA) systemic violation…
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It’s Just a Matter of Time Before Somebody Gets Hurt: New Just Security Post
In a new post over at Just Security, I look at the recently declassified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) opinions on bulk collection of Internet…
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Bad Connection - The telecom industry should be embarrassed by its silence on surveillance.
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security matters for Google, confers with Pablo Chavez, Google director of publicity, while t…
What You Don't Say About Data Can Still Hurt You
Cross-posted from Forbes. Written by Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger. Big data generates big myths. To help society set realistic expectations, the right ki…
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Why states are the big winner in the $17 million Google-Safari settlement
""The state attorneys general have both the inclination and the legal latitude … to be vigorous enforcers on consumer privacy," said Mayer. "…
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Boston policemen complain about new plan to watch their movements
It looks like Boston’s Finest is going to be watched by its own. As the result of new contract negotiations between the City of Boston and the Boston Police Dep…
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FTC Names Latanya Sweeney as Chief Technologist; Andrea Matwyshyn as Policy Advisor
Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez announced the appointments of Latanya Sweeney as the agency’s Chief Technologist and Andrea Matwyshyn as a Sen…
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Asian firms should trust no one but the tech
It took a while, but it seems revelations that the U.S. government has been brazenly running surveillance across the globe have finally taken a toll on American…
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Google, Facebook and other tech giants object to secret government arguments
When it comes to national security and the Internet, it seems, there's classified information -- and then there are secret arguments about the information.I…
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Google imitates the black marker of US government censorship in latest transparency report
Google today released its latest transparency report with a stronger message for its users and the United States government, and more detailed reporting about t…
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Google Gets Record Number of User Data Requests From Governments
This year has brought the biggest expansion yet of government efforts around the world to gather user data from Google, one of the globe's most-used search…