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Inside Amazon’s plan for Alexa to run your entire life
"Jen King, the director for privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, says these types of data controls are far too superficial. “I…
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How genetic tests are tearing families apart – and bringing others together
"“First rule of data: once you hand it over, you lose control of it,” University of California law professor Elizabeth Joh warned recently on Twitter. “You…
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How to Skim a Privacy Policy
"Language used in privacy policies is often deliberately ambiguous, says Jen King, Director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Interne…
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How to stop internet stalker ads from turning your phone into a surveillance device
"“I don’t pay much attention to all this talk about national legislation. It’s incredibly hard for Congress to do anything and even harder in privacy which…
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Police think Amazon’s Alexa may have information on a fatal stabbing case
"From a legal perspective, the investigative practice is straightforward, said Princeton University professor Jonathan Mayer. “Law enforcement can access…
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She was called the n-word and given instructions to slit her wrists. What did Facebook do?
"Danielle Citron, a legal scholar and a recipient this year of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for her work fighting online harassment, als…
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MacArthur Genius Danielle Citron on Deepfakes and the Representative Katie Hill Scandal
When Danielle Citron began studying online harassment more than a decade ago, her argument that online mobs and coordinated harassment constituted civil-rights…
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Companies shouldn’t keep ‘honeypots of data’ that attract bad actors, says executive at Google search rival
"It’s no longer enough just to protect against hacks and data breaches. Companies also have a responsibility not to attract bad actors to their services, a…
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US and UK CLOUD Act Wiretapping in Third Countries: It Is a Real Problem
My blog post on the big interception flaw in the CLOUD Act and US-UK Agreement generated some interesting responses, mostly offline, arguing that it is legal fo…
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Republican campaign put beacons on lawn signs to track phones, company says
""You can pull a lot of information off of a device with Bluetooth," Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the ACLU Speech,…
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The Big Interception Flaw in the US-UK Cloud Act Agreement
On October 3, 2019, the United States and the United Kingdom entered into a first-of-its-kind executive agreement under the CLOUD Act. The text of the agreement…
What Happens When Employers Can Read Your Facial Expressions?
Facial recognition technology, once a darling of Silicon Valley with applications for policing, spying and authenticating identities, is suddenly under fire. Co…