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In Renewed Encryption Fight, the Techlash Cuts Both Ways
"“A lot of what the tech companies have come under fire for in recent years has largely—especially with regard to Facebook—focused on privacy lapses, insuf…
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What we know about you when you click on this article
"“I don’t think you guys are doing anything different than anyone else in the media ecosystem, but that doesn’t make it great,” Jennifer King, director of…
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How Deepfakes Scramble Our Sense of True and False
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at Boston University, tells Sleepwalkers that deepfakes are being used to harass women, both in private and in public. La…
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UW research center to tackle the problem of fake news
"Ryan Calo, a UW law professor and one of the co-directors of the center, said they hope to publish online tools to help people decipher a suspicious artic…
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The CJEU’s new filtering case, the Terrorist Content Regulation, and the future of filtering mandates in the EU
A. Introduction For several years now, one of the most hotly contested Internet policy questions in the European Union (EU) has been whether and how platforms…
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Facebook testing a way to let you move photos to rival sites
"Martin Husovec, an assistant professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands who has written about data portability, said authorities were debating whe…
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They See You When You’re Shopping
"“We’ve removed so many social cues from online conversation that I can actually see the benefit of trying to add that back in,” said Jennifer King, the di…
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Senate Democrats release robust federal privacy bill to regulate tech company business practices
"“This legislation represents a sea change, particularly in the way federal law thinks about privacy harm,” said University of Washington law professor Rya…
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Senate Dems Have A New Privacy Bill That Could Be The Blueprint For A Federal Law
"Although it’s unlikely that a national privacy law will pass this year – or successfully wend its way through Congress before the 2020 presidential electi…
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Welcome to Deepfake Hell
"Riana Pfefferkorn is the associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. She’s been at the forefront o…
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Banning Strong Encryption Does Not Mean Catching Criminals. It Only Makes You Less Safe from Them.
On November 17, 2019, Reuters reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had drafted a resolution for the international police organization, Interp…
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Imagine Being on Trial. With Exonerating Evidence Trapped on Your Phone.
"Al Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanford Law School, said that the Stored Communications Act prevents defense lawyers from using subpoenas to harass…