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Privacy missteps cast cloud over digital assistants
"Ryan Calo, faculty co-director of the University of Washington Tech Policy Lab, said that while the devices are not listening, there remain concerns over…
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Capital One Took Nearly Two Weeks to Disclose Its Hack and Customers Still Don’t Know if They Were Affected
"“Whatever the law says, it’s not good corporate practice to leave consumers in the dark about their data being exfiltrated,” says Ryan Calo, a law profess…
Tech addiction & the dark art of persuasive design
‘Read Me’ Or Just Tap ‘I Agree’ There’s a huge group of people at work behind our screens. They’re called behaviour architects, persuasive designers or user-ex…
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How police might access your Lyft, Tinder and Google accounts in a criminal investigation
"“Absolutely, requests for large swaths of data increase the chances for innocent people to be swept up in investigations,” said Pfefferkorn. “Users shoul…
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xAG Barr rails against encryption — but security experts have heard it before
"“Sophisticated criminals will continue to have access to encryption even if the law is changed,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, the associate director of surveil…
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Considering deleting FaceApp? It won't be easy to get your data back
""[When] you delete an app, it just means you can't use it anymore," said Jen King, Director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford Law School's…
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Equifax endangered millions. It’s now hoping you won’t seek $125 in compensation
"Jen King, director consumer privacy for Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, said she doesn’t expect Congress to act on a federal privac…
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William Barr Despises Your Power to Keep Him from Snooping on You
Attorney General Bill Barr gave a speech yesterday at Fordham that revived the encryption debate in the U.S. after a relatively quiet period. Since the departur…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Attorney General Barr fires up the encryption debate
"“That shows disregard for the data security of citizens and really misapprehends how indispensable strong encryption is to Americans and to the economy of…
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Barr Revives Encryption Debate, Calling on Tech Firms to Allow for Law Enforcement
"Mr. Barr is assuming that the negative impacts of encryption on law enforcement investigations “far outweigh encryption’s benefits for protecting individu…
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Never-Googlers: Web users take the ultimate step to guard their data
"Quitting Google is a major undertaking that may not be possible, said Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University.…
5 ways to protect yourself from cybercrime
High-profile data breaches at companies like British Airways and Marriott get a lot of media coverage, but cybercriminals are increasingly going after community…