Privacy Now: How Smart Is It To Have a Smart Speaker?
Just how exposed are we when we invite Amazon Alexa, Google Voice and other voice assistants into our home? Who's listening? And what do they have an impact…
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“It’s not Personal” — DNA, Privacy, and Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing
Your DNA defines you as a unique human being. Unless you have a genetically identical sibling, your DNA is yours alone, a genetic map of proclivities for diseas…
"Becoming Part of Something Bigger": Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing, Privacy, and Personal Disclosure
Direct to consumer genetic testing (DTCGT) services where users can identify their inherited diseases and traits, find genetic relatives, and learn more about t…
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Why Run for Office if a Vindictive Ex May One Day Release Revenge Porn?
"“We often think of sex as both exciting and disgusting,” says Danielle Citron, a professor of law at Boston University Law School and 2019 MacArthur Fello…
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Will Big Tech’s Antitrust Moment Swing Open Encryption Backdoors?
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity for Stanford Law School, said antitrust suspicion and the calls for backdoors to e…
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Column: Shadowy data brokers make the most of their invisibility cloak
"“Creating a list of data brokers is a first step in helping consumers know who these actors are, but that does nothing to constrain their practices,” said…
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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…