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Why is the Internet Like a Cell Phone? Carpenter v. U.S
If your cell phone is on, your location is known, tracked and recorded, whether you are in your home or in public. As you move around, your location history is…
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Uber Settles with FTC Again, This Time over 2014 Privacy Breach
""People always complain that this is a slap on the wrist compared to Europe," says Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at N…
What We Learn From Government Speech About Hate
The bombing of a mosque and community center in suburban Minneapolis 10 days ago and the horrific events in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend are just the…
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Charlottesville is reshaping the fight against online hate
"At the same time, many anti-racism groups see free speech arguments as a distraction. The Oakland-based Center for Media Justice applauded GoDaddy’s decis…
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Did the Department of Justice Request Detailed Information About All Visitors to an Anti-Trump Website?
"Albert Gidari, Director of Privacy for the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, told us he agrees with the EFF’s argument: Asking for…
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The Crypto-Circus comes to town -- again
As part of it's 50th anniversary celebrations, the Australian university where I did graduate work recently interviewed me on a range of cybersecurity topic…
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‘Smart Cities’ of the Future Will Require More than Big Data
"Embedding sensors into public infrastructure without centralizing and securing the data doesn’t make a city smart or sensible. If anything, it creates mor…
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Hacking in Hollywood: Why the Industry Needs to Shore Up Security
"When it comes to fighting cyber crimes in Hollywood, it’s a case of pay now or pay later. Matwyshyn said the entertainment industry is a prime target for…
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These smart cities in Italy put Silicon Valley to shame
"Al Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, says cities need to work through such issues before starting…
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How Google Glass EE Evades Privacy Questions that Doomed the Original
"For Woodrow Hartzog, a digital privacy expert and professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, the answer to that question is mixed.…
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Who Is Marcus Hutchins?: Security Researcher Community Worried?
"Dr. Richard Forno, director of Graduate Cybersecurity Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, offered a similar response, telling IBT bon…
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New VPN Ban in Russia Latest Step in Increasing Cyber Risk for US Companies
"Moreover, Scott Shackelford, cybersecurity program chair at Indiana University, said the case in part “illustrates the difficulty of shutting down botnets…