Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford University, asked the crowd to raise their hands for a quick straw poll: “Who is more afraid of Google…
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Black Hat Conference here, a panel of experts got together to expound on what they see as the privacy and security mess…
The 2012 Black Hat conference is kicking off in Las Vegas, and this year's session will see Apple presenting for the first time, as well as a reunion of som…
Synopsis: CODE 2600 documents the rise of the Information Technology Age as told through the events and people who helped build and manipulate it. The film expl…
"A probable cause standard is what's required to protect Americans, and it's what's required under the Constitution," said Catherine Crump…
The revised Cybersecurity Act sponsored by Lieberman and Collins needs work. It's provisions expand the government's ability to conduct network surveil…
Senators Lieberman and Collins have just released a revised version of cybersecurity legislation proposed earlier this summer. Weighing in at 211 pages, we have…
Among the first to discover Google’s use of cookies on Apple’s browser was Stanford University graduate student Jonathan Mayer, who is working toward law and co…
ACLU lawyer Catherine Crump, who ran the cellphone location data investigation, is at it again. This time, she has filed similar Freedom of Information Act requ…
On June 28, ProPublica published a story by Peter Maass about the Federal Trade Commission and its efforts to protect the online privacy of consumers. The headl…
Earlier this month, Without My Consent (my CIS fellow project) reached its one-year anniversary. To celebrate, we're pleased to announce our first speaker p…
Jonathan Mayer had a hunch. The young computer scientist suspected that online advertisers might be following consumers around the web — even when they set the…