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Anonymous Plays Games With U.S. Sites
"Kerr's proposals have been picked up and refined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in what calls "Aaron's Law." The group'…
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The suicide of Aaron Swartz: an appropriate platform for CFAA reform?
"Stanford Law School’s Professor Jennifer Granick disagrees, and she chastises Professor Kerr for lumping Aaron’s alleged conduct of “circumventing code-ba…
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Hacktivist anger over US government's 'ludicrous' cyber crackdown
"Jennifer Granick, an attorney and the director for civil liberties at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford law school, writing after Swartz'…
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Obscurity: A Better Way to Think About Your Data Than 'Privacy'
Cross-posted from The Atlantic By Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger Facebook's announcement of its new Graph search tool on Tuesday set off yet another ro…
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London's Tube Is Getting 'Contactless' Payments. Could They Work in the U.S.?
In a conversation with Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington and privacy expert, he pointed out that if companies use information about how…
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New film goes in search of Google's first privacy policy
Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law, has called for companies to use simple icons denoting how user data is collecte…
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New Facebook Tool, Te'o Scandal Fan Flames of Privacy Debate
"It's fair to question the common narrative that because [Graph] Search respects privacy settings, then there aren't privacy issues,"said Wood…
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The Case of Aaron Swartz
"But lost in the praise is the fact that such an amendment wouldn’t necessarily, as Jennifer Granick of the Center for Internet Law and Society observed da…
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Swartz’s death shines light on strict hacking laws
"“The government should have never thrown the book at Aaron for accessing MIT’s network and downloading scholarly research,” said Marcia Hoffman, senior st…
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With Facebook search, users may lose their sense of obscurity
"A lot of this stuff that was previously unlikely to be seen outside of a small group of people will now easily be found through search on Facebook,"…
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Thoughts on Zoe Lofgren's CFAA Bill: A Great First Step
Yesterday, Representative Zoe Lofgren introduced on Reddit a bill to improve the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide during t…
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Facebook introduces new search tool
""People who interact socially online respond much better when they have a little time to remove or make more obscure information that is going to bec…