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Mohawks face online threats, hate as protest continues
"Shaheen Shariff is a McGill University professor who has studied hate speech for the past 20 years. She says what’s happening online is disturbing and dan…
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Three important forces, working in concert, we can't control
"“In our national context we’re on the side of having a fire hose of information,” says Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of policy and law at Penn State Law S…
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Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too
""You may have forgotten about the photos you uploaded to a then-popular social media site ten or fifteen years ago... but Clearview hasn't,"…
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What the Ring hacks tell us about tech’s backward approach to security
"“I don’t think you have to completely trade off one for another,” Jen King, director of consumer privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanfor…
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A judge resigns after using the n-word in texts that she says the public was never meant to see
"The robustness of the First Amendment and the Supreme Court’s interpretation of it has made the personal lives of public officials open to public curiosit…
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CCPA Comments, Round Two: The Battle of the Do Not Sell Button
Yesterday I submitted a second set of comments (see the bottom of this post for a copy) to the California Attorney General’s office for the February round of th…
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DOJ Plans to Strike Against Encryption While the Techlash Iron Is Hot
There’s a story in today’s Washington Post “Cybersecurity 202” newsletter that confirms that the Department of Justice is capitalizing on the techlash in order…
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'Building Side Doors Is Not Going to Help'
"“Crypto is really the elephant in the room for the Graham Blumenthal bill, it's a signal for Facebook and Signal to provide this method or be prepared…
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The police want your phone data. Here’s what they can get — and what they can’t.
"“Basically, anything that a provider has that it can decode, law enforcement is getting it,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for…
No Jonathans Or Pauls
Boston University School of Law put together an amazing live show! Leah, Melissa, and Jaime are joined by two fabulous BU law professors, Sarah Sherman-Stokes a…
Election Meltdown, Part 5
In the fifth and final part of this special series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined live on stage in Washington by former Florida gubernatorial candidate An…
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Trump Administration Targets Your 'Warrant-Proof' Encrypted Messages
"Riana Pfefferkorn, at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, says it's a safe bet the best practices would include a requirement t…