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Last week, we published three separate posts that looked at the FTC’s recent settlement with Aylo, the parent company of multiple adult websites including, most…
“Right now, there are real robotaxis carrying real people on real roads,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an AV researcher and professor at the University of South Ca…
News of governments such as Russia and North Korea deploying their tech teams to hack into companies for political reasons has made headlines (think Sony after…
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"Scott Shackelford, chair of the cybersecurity program at Indiana University, Bloomington, says one big cause of the shortage is the lack of a focused tale…
""It's deeply unsurprising to see a cyber mob descend. There’s a very quick snowballing that happens, where it’s maybe one or two people, then all…
""It's devastating and we deal with the survivors of this kind of sexual extortion and violence all the time," said McGill education professo…
"“We’re looking at creative ways to address these problems, so we can address, and unpack and undo the climate of rape culture and climate of sexism,” said…
"Jen King was in a hurry to get out the door of her Bay Area home on a recent morning, and she missed a call to her cell phone because of it. The phone num…
"Those types of efforts could increase if the intelligence community agrees to weigh in on deepfakes, said Danielle Citron, a privacy law expert at the Uni…
"In a new paper, Riana Pfefferkorn at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS) analyzes the cybersecurity risks of this practice for all…
"Most such litigation settles fairly quickly due to cost pressures, rather than the merit of the allegations, said Daniel Nazer, senior staff attorney with…
"Notably, Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, and University of Melbourne researchers Dr Vanessa Teague…
"It will set governments’ expectations about how they can use their leverage over internet platforms to effectively enforce their own laws globally,” said…