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Web Giants Threaten End to Cookie Tracking
""There is going to be an economic incentive to find out when people are most impulsive and vulnerable," said Ryan Calo, assistant professor at t…
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EDITORIAL: Thwarting domestic spies
"“These protections are important,” says the ACLU lawyer, Catherine Crump, “because where people go reveals a great deal about them, from who their friends…
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The Information-Gathering Paradox
"“It’s certainly striking to hear the companies’ use of fiery rhetoric to criticize mass collection of bulk data since they themselves are engaging in mass…
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New Post: Hands Off Encryption! Say New Amici Briefs in Lavabit Case
Over at Just Security, I have a new post looking at the legal issues and new amici briefs in the Lavabit case. The case is really important because the Fourth C…
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ACLU: Lavabit 'fatally undermined' by US request for encryption keys
""Lavabit's business was predicated on offering a secure email service, and no company could possible tell its clients that it offers a secure ser…
Why Is Facebook Putting Teens at Risk?
Cross-posted from Bloomberg View. When Facebook Inc. recently lifted its restriction on public posts by teenagers, some privacy scholars applauded the move as…
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Privacy and the Canadian Speech From the Throne
The Government of Canada released its Speech From the Throne (SFT) last week, spelling out its priorities and governing agenda for the next two years. While th…
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And yet it moves
Like the Catholic Church’s Congregation of the Index of 1616, which outlawed the movement of the Earth around the Sun, so too did the European Parliament restri…
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Appellate court: Nope, feds can’t just GPS track your car without a warrant
""It's awesome," Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School, told Ars. "On whether the Fourth Amendment ap…
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Like it? Social ads turn users into unwitting endorsers
"But many advertisers aren't completely sold on these endorsement ads — and with good reason, says Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Samford University&#…
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New Just Security Post: We All Go Down Together
I have a new post up at Just Security today. In it, I point to the fact that ongoing NSA revelations show that significant surveillance activities are taking…
We All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy, Yet Escape FISC, Congressional Oversight
Cross-posted from Just Security. Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Survei…