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Florida man won't be compelled to reveal iPhone passcode, yet
""This case adds to the disagreement over how to analyze compelled decryption orders in the context of passcodes," said Riana Pfefferkorn, associ…
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The Privacy Professional: A Modern Day Renaissance Man
Hollywood writers could not have scripted it better. Merely a month before the implementation date of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May this…
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DC Police: Body cam video of questionable search 'purged'
"“I think if somebody at the department knew about it, they should have at least flagged that footage,” said Harlan Yu runs a DC non-profit that studies bo…
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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…