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In the “going dark” discussion, it is a kind of orthodoxy that back doors are inherently insecure. Build in a means of someone other than the user accessing his data and you create unacceptable risk that...
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EU data protection authorities, the Article 29 Working Party (WP), have issued a comprehensive analysis of the proposed EU-US data transfer agreement. Privacy Shield, as it’s known, would replace the Saf...
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Is the encryption debate driving everyone around the bend? That's the only explanation I can reasonably think of for some strange phenomenon I've seen lately. Case in point is Congresswoman Jackie Spei...
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As the U.S. Congress considers encryption legislation, the French Parliament continues to move forward with enhanced penalties for companies that fail to aid sufficiently the authorities in gaining acces...
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Last week, the Hill obtained a draft copy of Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Richard Burr's (R-NC) much discussed encryption legislation . Today, the senators made it official, releasing the Complia...
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As noted by Susan last week, a draft of the Feinstein-Burr encryption bill has been leaked to the press. The bill is, predictably, being panned by the tech community. One reason for the derision is the...
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The court fight between Apple and FBI over access to a terrorist iPhone is just the latest chapter in the long-running tension between security professionals trying to get access to information and commu...
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The Hill has obtained a draft of Senators Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr's much-discussed and long-awaited encryption bill, entitled the "Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016." The bill is designe...
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This morning, I presented the following speech at Kenyon College—on Jodie Liu and my paper from last year on the privacy benefits of privacy threats, on some forthcoming work we'll be releasing next mont...
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It's been a bad few years for the free exchange of ideas on campuses around the country. Barely a day goes by where we don't read some story about students at elite institutions trying to silence one ano...
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Wednesday evening finds me at Kenyon College, at a conference on privacy, where I will speaking tomorrow on a combination of this paper and some work I have been doing recently on sexual extortion online...
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On February 29, 2016, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and Senator Mark Warner, a bipartisan team, introduced legislation to create a National Commission on Security and Technology Cha...