Podcast: Access Denied
Journalists are supposed to serve as “watchdogs” on the government. But how do they get access to the information they need to do that? In this episode, we talk…
Privacy
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Senate Crackdown on Online Sex Trafficking Hits Opposition
"For Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland, the bill’s language — in particular phrases like “assist, support or facilitate sex tr…
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Cybersecurity for the travelling scientist
"It can be tempting to try to hide information or use technological tricks such as 'duress passwords' that, if used instead of the genuine one, unl…
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A white man called her kids the n-word. Facebook stopped her from sharing it.
"The coalition has gathered 570,000 signatures urging Facebook to acknowledge discriminatory censorship exists on its platform, that it harbors white supre…
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That R. Kelly ‘cult’ story almost never ran. Thank Hulk Hogan for that.
"There’s a lot of uncertainty and fear out there, post-Gawker, said Nabiha Syed, BuzzFeed’s assistant general counsel, who vetted the story before publicat…
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How an online wedding registry in my name appeared out of thin air
"Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University and an expert on internet privacy, correctly captured my angst when he told me that…
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‘Textalyzer’ May Bust Distracted Drivers — But at What Cost to Privacy?
""We can't give the government the power to peer into everybody's digital lives indiscriminately, because that might create a bigger problem t…
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To thwart the trolls, social-media sites should require users' real names
"“Trolling is a terrible problem,” acknowledged Ryan Calo, an assistant law professor at the University of Washington who specializes in technology issues.…
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The "Going Dark" Debate: No News Isn’t Necessarily Good News
This year’s Black Hat USA conference is currently underway in Las Vegas. Last year, Jennifer Granick and I spoke at Black Hat about handling technical assistanc…
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Your Roomba May Be Mapping Your Home, Collecting Data That Could Be Shared
"Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that if iRobot did share the data, it would raise a variety of le…
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Twitter crackdown on abuse raises question: Do the rules apply to Trump?
"“For our democracy, I think we should all see what Trump is saying,” says council member Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland School…
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Twitter says it's making progress battling abusive behavior
"Twitter's renewed focus on harassment is a "completely different mindset" from several years ago, said Danielle Citron, a University of Mary…