On February 13, 2020, Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Sta…
Hacking into voting machines remains far too easy. It is too soon to say for sure what role cybersecurity played in the 2020 Iowa caucuses, but the problems, w…
In a landmark ruling earlier this month, India’s Supreme Court held that citizens’ right to freedom of speech and rights to carry out business using the interne…
Abstract We examined the authentication procedures used by five prepaid wireless carriers when a customer attempted to change their SIM card. These procedures…
Abstract Reliable information about platforms’ content removal systems was, for many years, hard to come by. But data and disclosures are steadily emerging as…
The good news is that Facebook is finally taking action against deepfakes. The bad news is that the platform’s new policy does not go far enough. Journalists,…
On November 28, 2019, Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Sta…
Reading this tweet by Maciej Ceglowski makes me want to set down a conjecture that I’ve been entertaining for the last couple of years (in part thanks to having…
Abstract America’s privacy bill has come due. Since the dawn of the Internet, Congress has repeatedly failed to build a robust identity for American privacy la…
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers Andy Greenberg, Doubleday (2019) In 2017, a piece of malicious software c…
A few years ago, Nellie Kroes warned that because of ill-adapted laws to technological development, “every day citizens […] across the EU break the law just to…
In Enigma Software v. Malwarebytes, the Ninth Circuit ruled that 47 U.S.C. 230(c)(2)(B) does not protect anti-threat classification decisions that are allegedly…