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I took a cannabis DNA test and learned more than I bargained for
"Jen King, Director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, calls these companies her “worst nightmare.” “A lot of t…
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Zuckerberg's end-to-end encryption plan could put Facebook at odds with law enforcement
"“Encrypting all kinds of communication — that’s going to help people not be blackmailed, not have other people intercept their pictures or their sensitive…
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SEPTA cops’ strike touches on a national issue: Who should see body camera footage?
"“One of the main reasons we’ve adopted body-worn cameras across the country is because of a mistrust of police and for the purpose of improving community/…
US takes tentative steps toward opening up government data
At the beginning of this year, President Trump signed into law the Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary Government Data Act, requiring that nonsensitive gover…
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Makes Big New Promises About Privacy
"“This does nothing to address the ad targeting and information collection about individuals,” said Jen King, director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law…
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Facebook Promises Encrypted Messaging, but You Don't Need to Wait
"Metadata is valuable because it can be just as revealing as what you write in a message, says Jonathan Mayer, assistant professor of computer science and…
Zuckerberg’s announcement changes everything for Facebook
In a post on Facebook’s website, Mark Zuckerberg has announced profound changes to Facebook’s approach to privacy and, by implication, its business model. Faceb…
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Why Facebook, Google, and Twitter don't want to be media companies
"Jennifer Granick, attorney with ACLU, points out that the arguments, or those engaging in them, are often paradoxical. The same people who don’t want Face…
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Tech Industry Wants a Stronger Privacy Law Than California’s
"At the Senate hearing, Northeastern University’s Professor of Law and Computer Science Woodrow Hartzog said he teaches his students to expect to deal with…
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Senators Talk Federal Privacy Regs As Tech Trade Groups Push To Preempt States' Laws
"“In the United States, we have a tradition of dealing with a patchwork of 50 state laws, [and] while there are virtues to consistency, it’s not the obstac…
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Hacker Simple Nomad’s personal opsec tips (Q&A)
"How long have you operated with that assumption? Probably 20 years. I had an incident occur in my hotel room at Black Hat. My room was broken into, and m…
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New FTC Powers Weighed in Senate Data Privacy Hearing
"Hartzog said a 50-state regulatory patchwork isn’t unworkable “because it’s what we’ve been dealing with all along.”" * Date Published:02/27/2019…