Our Hackable Political Future
Imagine it is the spring of 2019. A bottom-feeding website, perhaps tied to Russia, “surfaces” video of a sex scene starring an 18-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand.…
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Is it Time for a National Cybersecurity Safety Board?
Abstract In the wake of a series of destabilizing and damaging cyber attacks ranging from Equifax to Yahoo!, there has been a growing call for the U.S. governm…
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People Can Put Your Face on Porn—and the Law Can't Help You
"And it's the very artifice involved in these videos that provides enormous legal cover for their creators. “It falls through the cracks because it’s a…
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Florida Cop Bought Powerful Phone Malware That Can Intercept Emails and WhatsApp
"Riana Pfefferkorn, the cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, told Motherboard in an email, “Officers should not be buying m…
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How a gang of crooks hijacked your web browser
"Oversight is a known issue in the ad industry, said Ryan Singel, co-founder of the publishing-tools firm Contextly: “If legitimate ad platforms actually d…
Guarding against the possible Spectre in every machine
Security vulnerabilities in technology extend well beyond problems with software. Earlier this month, researchers revealed that the hardware at the heart of nea…
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Inside Amazon Go: The camera-filled convenience store that watches you back
"“It’s not just the transaction,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor and privacy expert at the University of Maryland’s law school. “Powerful companies…
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The NSA’s voice-recognition system raises hard questions for Echo and Google Home
"Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, says that kind of standoff is an inherent problem when platforms are s…
Amazon Go: No checkouts, but you are being watched
Nobody likes to wait in line. So today, Amazon removed that unpleasantness from the neighborhood grocery store. At Amazon Go, you walk in, pick up your grocerie…
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Oh, So Everybody’s a Legal Expert Now: Minnesota v. Diamond, Microsoft Ireland, and User-Hostile Path Dependence in the Law
On January 17, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued its opinion in State v. Diamond. It affirmed the appellate court’s holding that compelling a defendant to prov…
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Security experts wonder if privacy is going extinct – and at what cost
"“Just how bad is online tracking?” asked Arvind Narayanan, a researcher at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, as he made a p…
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Microsoft Says AI Advances Will Require New Laws, Regulations
"Microsoft is working on some of these areas through groups such as the Partnership on AI, which includes rivals like Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Goog…