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How the Supreme Court Could Rewrite the Rules for DNA Searches
"Like fingerprints in an earlier age, finding a DNA match is now considered the gold standard for criminal prosecutions in America. But the Golden State Ki…
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How the internet tricks you out of privacy using 'dark patterns' of design
"Deceptive design nudges, tricks and goads you into sharing more than you might intend to online, Professor Hartzog argues in his new book, Privacy's B…
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Cops take dead man’s smartphone to his corpse in attempt to unlock it
"Another attorney, Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School, underscored the fact that not only was going to a dead person’s fingerp…
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Experts rip Ray Ozzie's plan for unlocking encrypted phones
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School, who earlier this year wrote a whitepaper on "responsible encryption," said that…
Tactics Used To Find Golden State Killer Raise Privacy And Legal Questions
"BANDLAMUDI: They then made a match with DNA collected years ago from crime scenes throughout California where the suspect, Joseph James DeAngelo, allegedl…
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Ray Ozzie’s Key-Escrow Proposal Does Not Solve the Encryption Debate -- It Makes It Worse
Steven Levy, who’s been covering the crypto wars for a quarter-century, has a long article out in Wired about Ray Ozzie’s technical proposal for a key-escrow-ba…
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Should Police Body Cameras Get Facial Recognition Tech?
"But what happens if the technology makes a mistake? "It's a recipe for tragedy," said Harlan Yu, executive director for Upturn, a technology…
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Meet Badass, the Grassroots Activists Hitting Revenge Porn Where It Lives
""Culturally, we’ve taken a huge hit," Danielle Citron, who teaches law at the University of Maryland, told WIRED last March. “Getting people to…
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Users must demand more privacy protection, Mozilla director tells MPs
"A director with Mozilla Corp., the company that makes the Firefox browser, says he welcomes more regulation of the internet but is also urging citizens to…
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Axon's police body cams could be getting an AI upgrade. Civil rights groups are worried.
"Harlan Yu, executive director of Upturn, which monitors police agencies' body camera policies and is one of the letter's signatories, said the gro…
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Data Privacy: New EU Laws Coming in May
"The European Union is expected to implement sweeping new data privacy laws in May. Known as the General Data Protection Regulation, they will restrict how…
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Amazon will now deliver to your car — but you might pay for it in privacy
"“If you trust Amazon with your data, as many people do, then delivery to the trunk of your car is a safe way to getting your package, and perhaps safer th…