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Female Journalists Still Bear the Brunt of Cyberattacks
"Danielle Citron, a Boston University law professor and author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace,” said in an email interview that she is ambivalent about the…
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Privacy-Obsessed Parents: This Baby Monitor Without Wi-Fi Actually Works
"Jen King, the director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, adds that “hackers often use devices like baby monito…
Facebook Takes a Step Forward on Deepfakes—And Stumbles
The good news is that Facebook is finally taking action against deepfakes. The bad news is that the platform’s new policy does not go far enough. Journalists,…
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Facebook tries to curb deepfake videos as 2020 election heats up
"Facebook was praised by some experts, including Boston University Law School professor Danielle Citron, for becoming more proactive and receptive to outsi…
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CCPA: What California's new privacy law means for Facebook, Twitter users
""The debate will inevitably increase the requirements and the burden on the social media companies as well," said Omer Tene, vice president and…
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…