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"Tool Without a Handle: Tools for Vigilantes"
“This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do…
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This Week President Biden’s Executive Order on Big Tech
To understand more about what the executive order means for Big Tech and how the FTC is likely to act on it, I spoke this week with Woodrow Hartzog, a professor…
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I Have a Lot to Say About Signal’s Cellebrite Hack
This blog post is based off of a talk I gave on May 12, 2021 at the Stanford Computer Science Department’s weekly lunch talk series on computer security topics.…
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‘Dark Patterns’ in Consumer Data Privacy Garner Policy Attention
The FTC’s dark patterns workshop could help make the argument for added legal authority over business practices that are seen as abusive, according to Woodrow H…
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What Happens When You Click ‘Agree’?
“We have become so beaten down by this that we just accept it,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeastern University law professor. “The idea that anyone should be e…
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“Tool Without A Handle: Spirituality, Virtue, and Technology Ethics - Part 2”
This post visits some additional concepts of virtue found in Christian teaching supplementing concepts from other traditions such as Aristotle (natural law trad…
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Google must disclose emails in Russian oligarch's divorce
Albert Gidari of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society said the judge probably didn't want to hold up a trial set for Nov 30 in London.&…
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Deep-Dive Discussion about Cybersecurity with Riana Pfefferkorn
Riana Pfefferkorn is the Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. Riana’s work focuses on investiga…
The FTC Zoom Case: Does the FTC Need a New Approach?
It was inevitable. On Monday, Zoom joined an exclusive club of tech companies – Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Microsoft, Google, Uber, Snap, and more. This club…
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With the increased focus of ransomware attacks in health care, what other sector or type of business should be on high alert?
We pay a lot of attention to the potential for attacks on critical infrastructure in areas such as energy (power plants, electrical grid, etc.), but I'm won…
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Dark Patterns and the CCPA
This past spring, while the pandemic was worsening around us and the first shelter in place orders went into effect, I began an exploratory research project wit…
What's New in the US Crypto Wars
Encryption has been a topic of heated debate in the United States and worldwide during the last six years. The COVID-19 epidemic added a new twist to the debate…