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NSA’s Data Collection Pullback Isn’t as Big a Deal as You Think
"“This is a more focused policy by the NSA. It aims to restrict upstream collection to only those communications that directly involve a foreign intelligen…
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The New FISA Reform Still Doesn’t Protect Your Privacy
"And as Jennifer Granick notes in her excellent new book American Spies, executive-branch claims that Section 702 has been vital to preventing terrorist at…
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Police Chief Claims He 'Misspoke' After Body Cam Contradicts Account of Black Teen's Killing
"Harlan Yu, a tech policy researcher and co-author of the Body Worn Camera scorecard, a 2016 report rating body camera policies for different police depart…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 120: The Surveillance State
In the post-Snowden era, we don't have to tell you how important it is to stay engaged with (and vigilant about) the surveillance state in America. Jennifer…
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The GDPR and National Legislation: Relevant Articles for Private Platform Adjudication of “Right to Be Forgotten” Requests
In a recent blog post, I discuss the role of EU Member State laws in defining and enforcing the “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) under the EU’s new General Data P…
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Taser Will Use Police Body Camera Videos "To Anticipate Criminal Activity"
"This raw data fed into video analytics systems is itself captured and created by the police, said Elizabeth Joh, a law professor and policing expert at th…
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Facebook isn't doing enough to control violent posts, says expert
"However, Daphne Keller, the director of intermediary liability at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, questions whether machine monit…
Today’s ODNI and Section 702 News
Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced that it would stop some of the surveillance it conducts on the telecommunications ba…
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Miami sextortion case asks if a suspect can be forced to decrypt an iPhone
""It differs in that the victim often wears a fur bikini, but is not otherwise an out-of-the-ordinary dispute over this issue in my opinion," Jen…
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The “Right to Be Forgotten” and National Laws Under the GDPR
The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in the spring of 2018, bringing with it a newly codified version of the “Right to B…
Mozilla April Speaker Series: American Spies: Modern Surveillance and What We Can Do Speaker: Jennifer Granick
Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and polit…
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Should officers be allowed to view body cam videos? Or does it give them unfair advantage?
"Harlan Yu of Upturn Research has been studying body cameras and says they are not living up to the public’s expectations. “What Seattle and other police…