Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War
By Robert Chesney and Danielle Citron A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there is nothing that persuades quite like an audio or video recording of an…
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US academics recommend Australian-style paper ballots at elections
In the digital age, the fact Australians still vote using paper and pencils might seem a bit quaint, or even out of date. But researchers both here and in the…
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Snap! The local HOA just captured your license plate number
"Or neighbors could band together and sell the data, said Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and So…
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Tech's invasion of our privacy made us more paranoid in 2018
""In 2018, we really do view it as the year where there was a reckoning with privacy practices across the industry and people waking up to these conce…
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Australia passes new law to thwart strong encryption
"Even Riana Pfefferkorn—a cryptography expert and attorney at Stanford Law School who submitted formal October 2018 testimony to the Australian parliament…
Encryption law changes will weaken the security of everyday Australians: expert
We're yet to see the details of the deal between the Government and Labor which would allow the passage of laws to give police and investigators access to e…
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Facebook emails show us again that profits come before privacy
"Facebook is just a very high-profile example of that problem. Its claim that it doesn't sell user is based on a narrow interpretation of the word sell…
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Facebook Emails Reveal Debates Over Selling Data Access
"Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said the documents could raise concerns about antitrust and how Faceb…
Privacy’s Blueprint
Design is one of the most important but overlooked factors that determines people’s privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of T…
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Fixing Facebook? Zuckerberg falls short of his New Year's goal
""They created a platform where sharing was mindlessly easy and interacting with each other required almost no forethought at all," said Woodrow…
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ACLU asks court to release a secret order forcing Facebook to wiretap Messenger
"Jennifer Granick, the ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel, said the public “deserves to know why the government thought it could dismantle measu…
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Sending Lewd Nudes to Strangers Could Mean a Year in Jail
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and the author of a book on hate crimes in cyberspace, said that clarification could be…