Reply in Support of Objections to Report and Recommendation
Reply brief in support of January 2019 objections to magistrate judge's report and recommendation. * Publication Type:Litigation Brief * Publication Date…
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Experts, club members disagree on how to secure Mar-a-Lago
"“I certainly doubt that patrons and also the president would endorse that level of security, given that it’s a commercial interest of his,” said Richard F…
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Details Still Few In City Of Albany’s Ransomware Attack
"Brian Nussbaum is assistant professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany. "Ra…
Facebook is finally learning to love privacy laws
Nine years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed that people do not care about privacy. Things have changed. Last week, he called for the US and other c…
Smart is Not Enough
Abstract Despite increasing concern from the information security community, it is far from clear that even the smartest of U.S. cities are in a position to de…
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Prosecutors Dropping Child Porn Charges After Software Tools Are Questioned
"“Courts and police are increasingly using software to make decisions in the criminal justice system about bail, sentencing, and probability-matching for D…
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Ransomware Hits City Of Albany Computers
"Brian Nussbaum is an assistant professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany. "…
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The privacy paradox
""Some of these companies have so much power that we don't have much choice but to use their services — and we can't use these services withou…
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Comments on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
In collaboration with CIS Visiting Research Scholar Jana Gooth, we have (belatedly) submitted comments to the California Attorney General's office regarding…
A Consumer DNA Testing Company’s Alarming New Marketing Pivot
Sometimes a marketing pivot serves a truth-telling function. A new television ad for the consumer DNA database FamilyTreeDNA asks the public to share their DNA…
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Cute robots, smart underwear, and facial recognition in church: Have we gone too far?
"In the near future, robots might be able to manipulate our emotions, everyone will be rated on everything, and we won’t be able to trust our own eyes, Woo…
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Forget Photoshop. Adobe Is a Marketing Company Now
"This can’t help but sound tone-deaf at a time when the technology industry generates privacy scandals on a near-daily basis. Adobe says it’s helping creat…