The Privacy Advisor Podcast: Product design as an exercise of power and manipulation
Our modern privacy frameworks, with their emphasis on gaining informed consent from consumers in order to use their data, are broken models. That's accordin…
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FBI surveillance devices may interfere with 911 calls, U.S. senator says
"Jonathan Mayer, a Princeton computer science professor who served as a technologist at the Federal Communications Commission, said the issue deserves clos…
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NSA leader to hackers: Cybersecurity’s a team sport
"His omissions underscore two of the agency’s biggest current problems, says Richard Forno, director of the Graduate Cybersecurity Program at the Universit…
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The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People
"Danielle Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace and a professor at the University of Maryland’s law school, told Motherboard that Facebook’s “oh shit…
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Energy and Natural Resources Committee holds hearing on blockchain technology
"In his testimony, Arvind Narayanan, associate professor of computer science at Princeton University, discussed the cybersecurity implications of blockchai…
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Blockchain Could Help Bring Renewable Energy to the Power Grid, Experts Tell Congress
"“Blockchain technology is not a necessary or core component of cybersecurity,” said Arvind Narayanan, a computer science associate professor at Princeton…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Tech giants open up about election cyberthreats as specter of regulation looms
"“It’s a corporate win-win,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a Northeastern University law professor specializing in technology policy. “There’s no downside for com…
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CRYPTO 2018: “Middle Ground” Proposals for a Going-Dark Fix
On August 19, the CRYPTO 2018 conference on cryptographic research hosted a one-day workshop in Santa Barbara called “Encryption and Surveillance.” The goal of…
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Schools are using AI to track what students write on their computers
"“There should be a whole gradation of how this [software] should work,” Daphne Keller, the director of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (and m…
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What Your Car Knows About You
"“That’s not going to give consumers a full sense of how their data is being used and collected any more than it is online,” said Ryan Calo, a law professo…
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Exclusive: U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger - sources
"However, in cases of chat, gaming, or other internet services that are not tightly integrated with existing phone infrastructure, such as Google Hangouts,…
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The Cybersecurity 202: This new FBI cyber official could be a moderating voice in encryption debate
"“She wouldn't outright say, ‘Yes, I want a backdoor,’ yet she voiced support for the idea of providers keeping the keys to decrypt data,” Riana Pfeffe…