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Austria’s bid to end online anonymity triggers crackdown fears
"People would be allowed to use pseudonyms when posting online, but platforms could be forced to hand out the users’ private information to third parties,…
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Privacy and Civil Liberties Board Considers Three Ways for Congress to Address Controversial Surveillance Program
"The NSA is allowed to collect records for individuals up to two times removed from targets, creating exponential growth in the total number of records. Wi…
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Deepfake porn and the ethics of being able to watch whatever your imagination desires
"‘In the US, the legal options are small but potent if (big if) one has the funds to hire an attorney and one can find the creator,’ Danielle Citron, profe…
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Experts present most pressing issues facing global lawmakers on citizens’ privacy, democracy and rights to freedom of speech
"“Make commitments to public service journalism”, Ben Scott, The Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School Ben states that technology doesn’t c…
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The Week in Tech: Disinformation’s Huge Inaction Problem
"“What’s not so clear yet is whether G.D.P.R. has had an effect on privacy and on corporate data practices,” said Omer Tene, vice president and chief knowl…
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Open Letter to GCHQ Regarding Threats Posed by their Ghost Proposal
Today I join several cybersecurity, civil liberties, civil society organizations and researchers in responding to the United Kingdom's GCHQ recent proposal…
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Facebook is still letting border militias organize on its platform
"Jennifer Granick, a surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the ACLU, explains that the purpose of the law “isn’t necessarily to protect the tech comp…
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Artificial intelligence is at the heart of online toxicity, Grand Committee hears
"Ben Scott, a Stanford fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society and a former advisor to Hillary Clinton, said that it wasn’t until the tech giants got…
Germany proposes Europe’s first diversity rules for social media platforms
Tighter regulation of social media and other online services in now under discussion in several European countries, as well as in the UK where the government ha…
About That Pelosi Video: What to Do About ‘Cheapfakes’ in 2020
In the summer of 2016, a meme began to circulate on the fringes of the right-wing internet: the notion that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was seriously…
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Van Hollen And UMBC Expert Talk About Next Steps After Cyber Attack On Baltimore City
""Once a tool like this is out there, it's only a matter of time before criminals will take advantage of it and use it against governments or othe…
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Some tech giants sign onto Canada's declaration on electoral integrity
"Ben Scott, who worked on the digital campaigns of U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, described the tech giants' business m…