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The Promise and Peril of Personalization
Authored by Brett Frischmann and Deven Desai Google, Amazon, and many other digital tech companies celebrate their ability to deliver personalized services. Ne…
Privacy
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New Ways To Prevent Identity Theft During The Holiday Shopping Season
"hat's what Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of business law and ethics in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, recommends. He re…
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I'm Asking a Federal Court to Unseal Its Secret Docket in a Facebook Messenger Wiretapping Case
Today, I joined the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern California, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in moving to unseal a sealed case in…
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Motion to Unseal Court Records Concerning US DOJ Motion to Compel Facebook
Encryption helps human rights workers, activists, journalists, financial institutions, innovative businesses, and governments protect the confidentiality, integ…
Motion to Unseal Court Records Concerning US DOJ Motion to Compel Facebook
Motion to unseal the docket and court's legal reasoning in a sealed case wherein the Department of Justice allegedly sought to compel Facebook to comply wit…
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What's Next: A Sneak Peak at Consumer DNA Collection’s Dangerous Road + SEC's Early Loss on a Crypto ICO
"Stanford Law’s Jen King is more than familiar with the potential policy pitfalls unique to this area of data collection. As director of consumer privacy f…
Supplemental Letter to PJCIS regarding Assistance and Access Bill
Letter to Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) regarding a proposed "compromise" version of the Assistan…
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The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website to Unmask a Cybercriminal
"“What kinds of criminals mask their location, and for what kinds of crimes? Child pornography, yes; violent threats, yes; but also organized-crime rings e…
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New Spanish Law raises concerns over use of sensitive data by political parties
The new Law on Data Protection and Digital Rights (LOPD), recently enacted in Spain, includes a highly controversial provision allowing political parties and or…
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Tool Without A Handle: Tools For Meaning, Part 2
“Tool Without A Handle”: Tools and the Search for Meaning – Part II If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but t…
The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia
On November 4, 2016, the hacker “Guccifer 2.0,” a front for Russia’s military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use…
Facebook Increasingly Reliant on A.I. To Predict Suicide Risk
"Law professor Ryan Calo, co-director of the University of Washington's Tech Policy Lab, says AI-based monitoring of social media may follow a predicta…