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Cops Might Finally Need a Warrant to Read Your Gmail
"E-mail and its eventual successors are simply too important to be governed by inconsistent and confusing standards," wrote Woodrow Hartzog, a profess…
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Hackers claim FBI file 12 million Apple device IDs
A hacking collective on Monday released what it claims are more than one million unique device numbers for Apple products that it allegedly pulled from an FBI a…
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Hackers Leak 1 Million Apple Device IDs
To cap off a summer of devastating corporate data breaches, hackers yesterday posted online what might be the crown jewel of 2012 data dumps: 1 million identifi…
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Privacy, Masks and Religion
Photo: Basking & masking. In China, where sun tan is negatively stigmatized, beach goers wear masks. One of the most significant developments for privacy l…
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Drone-Tracking App Gets No Traction From Apple
CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo is quoted in this All Things Considered piece on Apple's decision to block a drone-tracking app due to objectionable content…
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License plates scanned at border, data shared with car insurance group
"These documents are illustrative of why individuals often feel so helpless with information that is shared with others or in public—it is very difficult f…
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Does The Fourth Amendment Have A Posse (Comitatus)?
Earlier this month, U.S. News & World Report ran the following headline: "Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use In Arrest Of American Citizen." The ar…
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The Origins of the Investigation into Google Privacy Violations
For the past two months, a fight has been raging in the blogosphere about whether Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer can take credit for spurring the government…
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Help Drones Invade SXSW
If you read this blog, chances are you're aware of SXSW, a unique festival exploring music, film, and emerging technology. Recent years have seen one or tw…
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NYC High School Prohibits Electronic Devices.
Apparently cell phones are prohibited at Norman Thomas High School in Manhattan. Rising to the opportunity, the Pure Loyalty Mobile Device Storage truck, locate…
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UPDATED: Sixth Circuit Cell Tracking Case Travels Down the Wrong Road
Today the Sixth Circuit ruled in United States v. Skinner that police do not need a warrant to obtain GPS location data for mobile phones. Investigators obtai…
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How to build effective cyber defenses
From my opinion piece today on CNN: Top Obama administration officials have been pressing the U.S. Congress hard for legislation to improve network security fo…