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…
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The Making of an American Nazi
"But this activity is difficult to prosecute when trolls know how to conceal their identity. A lone troll might leave his victim only one voicemail telling…
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How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her
"People are starting to understand “that the web watches them back,” says Aleecia McDonald, a privacy researcher at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Soci…
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Civil Rights Groups: Police Are Making Little Progress on Improving Body Cam Policies
"“By allowing officers to review footage as they write their initial incident report, it makes it easier for them to act for the camera and create multiple…
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Should police get to view bodycam footage immediately?
"“Because of what's happening around the country, officers seem to have this special advantage now where they get to view footage before writing report…
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Texas killings may aid Rosenstein’s crusade on encryption
"“It’s basically the gloves coming off,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society. Indeed, P…