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The Practical Impact of Carpenter v. United States
An enormous amount of attention has been paid to the oral argument before the Supreme Court in Carpenter v. United States. The transcript provides tantalizing t…
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Why Police Body Cams Aren’t What They Seem to Be
"Few people have looked at these issues as closely as Harlan Yu at Upturn, a nonprofit based in Washington DC, who studies technology’s impact on civil rig…
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SCOTUS Case Could Redefine 'Reasonable Expectatio of Privacy'
"“A lot of what we’re getting at in the Carpenter case,” said Woodrow Hartzog, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern, “is a growing sense o…
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Sharing your location with your bank seems creepy, but it's useful
"Albert Gidari, the director of privacy for the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School, agreed that most of the bank's efforts with g…
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Facebook to expand artificial intelligence to help prevent suicide
"But it may be more difficult for tech firms to justify scanning conversations in other situations, said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professo…
As DOJ calls for “responsible encryption,” expert asks “responsible to whom?”
"While the battle against encryption has been going on within federal law enforcement circles (dubbed "going dark") since at least the early 1990…
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Campaign to Prevent Violent Traffic Stops Tells Drivers to Keep Cool
"The ads also stop short of fully explaining the rights of a citizen in a traffic stop, according to Harlan Yu, the executive director of Upturn, a nonprof…
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Uber's massive hack: What we know
"According to Andrea Matwyshyn, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, if companies help cyber criminals make money off hacks, t…
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Should Washington begin regulating Facebook? Some lawmakers say yes.
"Policy experts also question how the bill would actually work. Daphne Keller of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society pointed to the challenges of…
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Did Wikileaks Commit A Crime When It 'Guessed' PutinTrump.org's Password?
"Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said that unless the owner or operator of a system specifically auth…
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Wireless carriers on mute as U.S. top court hears big privacy case
"Unlike internet firms, telephone providers require government licenses to operate and many have signed contractual agreements that mandate cooperation wit…
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Q&A: Stanford’s Riana Pfefferkorn on ‘Responsible Encryption’
"In this excerpt from an interview on Law.com’s “Unprecedented” podcast, Stanford Law cryptography fellow Riana Pfefferkorn talks about the Department of J…