Website operators are in the dark about privacy violations by third-party scripts
by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan. Recently we revealed that “session replay” scripts on websites record everything you do, like someone l…
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Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark
"“Obstruction of justice definitions vary widely by country,” says Ryan Calo, a cyberlaw professor at the University of Washington. “What’s clear is that U…
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Chuck Johnson's Twitter Free Speech Suit Is Probably DOA
""The lawsuit is unlikely to be successful," says Neil Richards, a professor at Washington University Law School, who specializes in First Amendm…
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How to wipe personal data from work laptops and phones
"Not so fast, says Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. Many employees regularly co-mingle their perso…
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New Article in the Connecticut Law Review
My article Everything Radiates: Does the Fourth Amendment Regulate Side-Channel Cryptanalysis?, 49 Conn. L. Rev. 1393 (2017), has recently been published by the…
The Call-In: Sharing Your Passwords With Your Partner
Sharing passwords with a partner can be tricky. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with tech experts Nancy Baym and Woodrow Hartzog while Becky McDougal from M…
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Release of police body camera recordings varies across Kansas
"One of the most significant challenges in releasing body-camera recordings is balancing privacy with transparency, said Harlan Yu, executive director of U…
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'Swatting' suspect was linked to many other hoax calls in L.A. and elsewhere before Kansas tragedy
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland who specializes in privacy and cyberstalking, said the use of swatting as a form of payb…
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Months after Equifax data breach, we're still no closer to privacy protections
"Kristen Eichensehr, an assistant professor at UCLA School of Law who specializes in cybersecurity issues, said the Europeans begin any privacy discussion…
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U.S. dramatically increased searches of electronic devices at airports in 2017, alarming privacy advocates
"“The idea that they can be searched just by entering or leaving the country we are citizens of — it goes against the very thing the 4th Amendment was desi…
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Facebook declines to say why it deletes certain political accounts, but not others
"“The law is clearly targeted at economic activity and is being applied to an entirely different category to suppress speech,” said Jennifer Granick, an at…
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More Helped than Harmed: The Internet and Human Flourishing in the Coming Decade
Today, someone asked me about the Internet and human well-being over the next decade. The question was a healthy provocation to look at the big picture. I chose…