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The EARN IT Act: How to Ban End-to-End Encryption Without Actually Banning It
The story so far: In the ‘90s the Internet was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. (with…
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What Your Period Tracker App Knows About You
"“It is the ability of a mobile app to collect far more data about you than you’re telling it that can be harmful,” says Jennifer King, director of consume…
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The U.S. government's been trying to stop encryption for 25 years. Will it win this time
"Today, government access to encrypted communications through a mandated backdoor is not the law of the land in any single country. But laws requiring vary…
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3 Simple Ways to Fight for Your Privacy
"Jennifer King is director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. She agrees that defending your data against vague…
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Is Your Security Strategy Dumbing Down Your Smart Factory?
"In a recent paper, Indiana University Professor Scott Shackelford examines the cyber risk in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), including security…
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Have a Search Warrant for Data? Google Wants You to Pay
"The new fees could help recover some of the costs required to fill such a large volume of legal requests, said Al Gidari, a lawyer who for years represent…
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Technology created deepfakes—does it have a way to stop them, too?
"“The verification technology is promising but my worry is that as we become more sensitized to the existence of deepfakes and misinformation that may make…
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You Asked, We Answered: Are My Health Records Being Sold To Advertisers?
"Jennifer King is Director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford Law School and a self-described “privacy zealot.” When I told her Hannah’s story, Jennifer immed…
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As use of facial recognition expands, travelers worry about privacy
"The problem, though, goes far beyond what a few airlines and cruise lines are testing. “It is common to have your fingerprints scanned and your picture ta…
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The hits and misses of using Artificial intelligence for recruitment
"Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University, puts it more succinctly, “Much of what’s being sold as ‘AI’ today is snake oil — i…
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Microsoft Looms Over the Privacy Debate in Its Home State
"Two Microsoft employees sat opposite one another in a Washington State Senate hearing room last Wednesday. Ryan Harkins, the company’s senior director of…
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One State May Become the First to Ban Law Enforcement Use of Genealogy Databases
"Jen King, the director of consumer privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that cases like the Golden State Killer make it difficult…