Democracy's Dilemma
The key term that recurs throughout Henry Farrell’s and Bruce Schneier’s essay is “trust.” That is no surprise, as the concept unites both authors’ bodies of wo…
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Former U.S. Diplomat Convicted Of Threatening Arab American Group
"That question is at the heart of hundreds of cases across the country and is likely to become more pressing as bias-motivated incidents rise in tandem wit…
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As Facebook Pivots to Private Platforms, How Will We Monitor Fake News and Hate Speech?
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, points out old-fashioned gum shoe…
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Google’s privacy push gets a mixed reception
"“Unimpressive,” declared Princeton computer scientist Jonathan Mayer, who said the scheme would be easy for advertisers to evade. “This is not privacy lea…
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Google’s New Privacy Features Put the Responsibility on Users
"Jen King, the director of privacy for the Center for Internet and Society, says she believes that most people tend to find privacy settings very confusing…
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Google Assistant is 10x faster and knows where your mom lives
""I don't know how well people actually understand," said Jen King, director of consumer privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Soci…
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12 Experts on the Uber IPO and the Ridesharing Company’s Future
"Ryan Calo, University of Washington law professor I think about the privacy-policy ramifications. I think about the effect on the driver of the architect…
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Amazon's neighborhood watch app raises discrimination, privacy fears
"Neighborhood message boards are already famously rife with racism, and Motherboard reported earlier this year it had found frequent racist comments on Rin…
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What Does Chalking Tires Have To Do With The Fourth Amendment?
"To those within and without the legal profession, the ruling is strange. "It's an interesting and unusual case," says Stephen Smith, retired…
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Privacy Penalties Will Keep Setting Records, FTC Chair Hints
""So far, we haven't gotten really close to the maximums [of the agency's statutory fining authority], but one of the things we're looking…
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This Woman Was Included In A "Cringe Compilation" And YouTube Won't Take It Down
"But that doesn't mean these videos aren't bullying. Shaheen Shariff is a professor at McGill University and the director of the Define the Line re…
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Who protects you from making a bad purchase… on your smart speaker?
"Law professor Ryan Calo studies digital market manipulation at the University of Washington, and he looks back to the 1970s when the Federal Trade Commiss…