How California's New Data Privacy Law Will Affect Consumers
California's new data privacy law went into effect on January 1. California consumers now have the right to know how their data is used, the right to get th…
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California's sweeping digital privacy bill raises a question: Will people use it?
"The law's biggest impact, in fact, may lie in how it requires companies to track what data they have, where they keep it and how to get it to people w…
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Data Breach at Wyze Labs Exposes Information of 2.4 Million Customers
"While Congress has not yet passed federal legislation to provide consumers with protections against data breaches, all 50 states and D.C., Guam, Puerto Ri…
The Lawfare Podcast: Danielle Citron on Feminism and National Security
Live from the #NatSecGirlSquad Conference in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2019, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Danielle Citron, professor of law at Boston Uni…
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How Cambridge Analytica and the Trump campaign changed Big Tech forever
"The story prompted outrage at a time when Americans were particularly divided in the wake of Trump’s election and concerned about Russian interference thr…
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Think Alexa Is Too Creepy For Your Kitchen? Don’t Give It to Aunty Mary.
"Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, offered a more optimistic framing of the WiFi-connected devices — the so-called intern…
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The privacy smokescreen
"The other side: "To conclude that assessments aren't working, I think, is a false conclusion," says Al Gidari, a longtime privacy lawyer now…
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The decade Big Brother came home: How tech giants persuaded us to buy products that track us at home
"In the past, users might have thought they were just a “cog in the machine” whose individual activity went unnoticed, but recent privacy failures have pro…
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Genetic testing is an inexact science with real consequences
"And companies are popping up every day, promising to use your DNA for everything from figuring out what wine or marijuana varietals your genetics predispo…
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Thoughts on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Hearing on Encryption
On Tuesday, December 10, the Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) held a hearing on the encryption debate, the first such hearing in years. Most of the senators pre…
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How ‘dark patterns’ influence travel bookings
"Arvind Narayanan, associate professor of computer science at Princeton, has worked with graduate student Mathur on unearthing dark patterns found on retai…
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From Pokémon Go to Facebook, here’s how to protect your privacy on apps
"“There’s still a whole ecosystem predicated on sucking as much information from people’s phones as possible,” Jen King, the director of consumer privacy a…