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Security experts warn lawmakers of election hacking risks
"More than a hundred security researchers and computer science experts have warned in a letter to lawmakers that not enough is being done to ensure the int…
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How A Company You've Never Heard Of Sends You Letters About Your Medical Condition
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, said this clearly violates a user's expectation of what will happen based on the design of…
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Supreme Court Hints That Trump Can’t Legally Block You on Twitter
""It's to the credit of these companies that they have—without admitting it in court—taken the responsibility of the custodians of public debate,&…
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The Supreme Court Just Protected Your Right to Facebook
""The Supreme Court appropriately understood the importance of the internet to the way politics and free expression occur right now," says Neil R…
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The Cross-Border Data Fix: It’s Not So Simple
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday on cross-border data requests, featuring testimony from the Department of Justice, the U.K. government, G…
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House Judiciary Continues Email Privacy Law Overhaul Debate
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and international security at Google, said in response to questions from Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) that ECPA…
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Youth is no defence when it comes to shameful online posts
"According to Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, and a leader in the fight against online harassment and reven…
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The Texting Suicide Case Is About Crime, Not Tech
"And yet, according to Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, there are 21 crimes that have to do explicitly with speech—things lik…
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Inside the ACLU’s nationwide campaign to curb police surveillance
"When you pass a law, you create legality where there wasn’t,” says Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice, a Bay Area nonprofit. “We create the lega…
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Inside the military tactics used during Standing Rock
"But the information provided by TigerSwan could have helped police forces overcome that prohibition. Elizabeth Joh, a private security legal scholar at th…
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Are Geek Squad agents spying for the FBI?
"Finding child porn is one thing; courts have typically deferred to law enforcement on such matters, said Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of busi…
Don’t believe what Putin is saying about ‘patriotic’ Russian hackers
The last two days have seen two major developments regarding Russian hacking. First, Russian President Vladimir Putin tacitly admitted that Russian hackers migh…