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Is technology re-engineering humanity?
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.” This truism—by the media-scholar John Culkin about the work of Marshall McLuhan—is m…
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Google Turns Over Identities of Bloggers on Benfica
"Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said under current regulations Google had little option but…
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The Wildly Unregulated Practice of Undercover Cops Friending People on Facebook
"Catherine Crump, a law professor at the University of California-Berkeley, found that horrifying. “Our social media profiles contain sensitive, private in…
Who owns the results of genetic testing?
DNA and genetic testing are big business. But there are real questions about privacy and about what happens to your genetic information after you get tested. Re…
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As some departments loosen grip on body camera footage, Memphis police holds firm
"Harlan Yu, executive director of UpTurn based in Washington, D.C., a group that participated in a review of MPD's body camera policy, said the individ…
Disinformation on Steroids
Introduction Disinformation and distrust online are set to take a turn for the worse. Rapid advances in deep-learning algorithms to synthesize video and audio…
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Privacy by design and the Uber settlement
On September 26, attorneys general from multiple U.S. states settled with the ride sharing company Uber over a data breach that revealed personal information ab…
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'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used by Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything
"“Do Not Track could have succeeded only if there had been some incentive for the ad tech industry to reach a consensus with privacy advocates and other st…
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Apple to Australia: “This is no time to weaken encryption”
"The Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner expressed similar concerns, as did Riana Pfefferkorn, a Stanford legal fellow, who called the bill &q…
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Australia's Revised "Assistance and Access" Bill: Still a Bad Idea
Today I'm submitting a second round of comments to the Australian government regarding its proposed Assistance and Access Bill. The proposed legislation wo…
Comments for Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) review of the Telecommunication & Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance & Access) Bill 2018
Comments submitted to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) of the Australian Parliament on the revised draft (20 September 201…
Stop Saying Privacy Is Dead
Co-authored by Evan Selinger and Woodrow Hartzog Privacy protections are at risk yet again. The Five Eyes security alliance, which spans the governments of the…