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Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords
""This is one of those unanswered legal questions: Is there any circumstance under which they could get password information?" said Jennifer Gran…
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N.J. wins $1 million settlement from online ad company for violating web user privacy
"While the most recent allegations did not include PulsePoint stealing any personal information from users, the damage was real, said Aleecia McDonald, dir…
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Amash Amendment to defund NSA surveillance fails narrowly
In a closely watched vote that ended within the past hour, the US House of Representatives narrowly rejected Rep. Justin Amash's (R-MI) amendment (205-217)…
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Can You Hide Anything from the NSA?
""It's sort of like a puzzle that those of us who are in [the digital security] field have been trying to put together for years," said Jenni…
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Secret FISA Court Must Go
Chris Sprigman and I have a new piece up at The Daily Beast about NSA illegal mass surveillance. This time we're looking at the role of the secret FISA Cour…
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In-Store Tracking Companies Try to Self-Regulate Privacy
"“Self-regulation in its purest form is a recipe for disaster. There are simply too many incentives to violate privacy interests and too little transparenc…
The Secret FISA Court Must Go
The Secret FISA Court Must Go, an op ed on The Daily Beast. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:07/24/2013…
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How Protecting Your Privacy Could Make You the Bad Guy
"A number of researchers (including me) recently joined an amicus brief (filed by Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society in the “Weev” case), arguing h…
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Congress and the Justice Dept's Dangerous Attempts to Define “Journalist” Threaten to Exclude Bloggers
Cross-posted from EFF. Lawmakers in Washington are again weighing in on who should and should not qualify as a journalist—and the outcome looks pretty grim for…
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Should CalPERS post pensioners' financial data online?
""I call obscurity 'pretty good privacy,'" Woodrow Hartzog, a privacy expert affiliated with Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
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Calling All Big Data Experts for Amicus Brief in Phone Records Surveillance Cases
As you may know, both the ACLU and EPIC have brought legal challenges to the NSA's collection of Americans' phone records and related traffic data (meta…
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Google tests encryption to protect users' Drive files against government demands
"Whether the government could obtain a user's login information with a wiretap order is an "unanswered legal question" in the United States,…