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New Whitepaper: Security Risks of Government Hacking
Today, CIS is publishing a whitepaper called “Security Risks of Government Hacking.” Also called “equipment interference” or “lawful hacking,” government hackin…
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Please stop sending sensitive messages via Slack
"“It just shows how much education users need to do when they switch around between half a dozen apps, trying to figure out how each one works,” says Riana…
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Tool Without A Handle: Tools and the Search for Meaning
“Tool Without a Handle”: Tools and the Search for Meaning In a New York Times review of Edward Tenner’s book The Efficiency Paradox, Gal Beckerman observes th…
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At Facebook and Twitter hearings, Congress needs to bring its A-game
""A lot of it has to do with public faith," said Jen King, director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Soci…
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Two years later and it still sucks: Privacy Shield progress panned
"Omer Tene, veep of the International Association of Privacy Professionals and a member of Privacy Shield's arbitration panel, noted that the complaint…
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Google Reportedly Bought Your Banking Data in Secret, and That's Not Even the Bad News
"“The laws are strict,” Dr. Jennifer King from Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society told Gizmodo. “But if you’re doing kind of a one-off o…
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Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers
"Oath is testing the boundaries of what users may be comfortable sharing. Unlike with web-browsing habits and search histories, many users expect a greater…
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…