New Zealand border phone searches cause outcry
Profile: Sharon Fisher
We’ve had this in the U.S. for a while, but now it’s happening elsewhere: Enter New Zealand, and either be willing to hand over your smartphone and password, or pay a $3200 fine. “New laws that came into...
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If Hacked, Should You be Able to Hack Back?
Profile: Sharon Fisher
When someone breaks into your system, is it fair to go break into theirs? Sometimes it’s in an “eye for an eye” situation. More often, people want to use hacking techniques to help figure out who hacked them. Either way, it’s called “hacking back” and has been illegal, with sentences...
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EU Considers Ending Privacy Shield
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Here we go again. The European Union is calling for an end to the so-called Privacy Shield agreement by September 1 if the U.S. doesn’t follow through on its commitments, which could make it really difficult for U.S. computer companies to acquire data from European customers. As you may...
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Will the Supreme Court’s ‘Carpenter’ Ruling be Privacy’s Last Hurrah?
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“The American Civil Liberties Union deserves congratulations” is not a sentence one is accustomed to read from the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank, but it just goes to show how pervasive the...
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Okay, Working at Upguard Must be the Best Job Ever
Profile: Sharon Fisher
Configuration is hard. At least, that’s the conclusion to draw from a recent storage security issue where the Los Angeles County hotline number, 211, was storing many of the records regarding its hotline calls in the cloud....
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Another Court Rules Against Warrantless Cellphone Border Searches
Profile: Sharon Fisher
Yet another court has ruled that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents have to have some sort of probable cause to search people’s electronics. The Fourth Circuit has now agreed. The Department of Homeland Security has said in the past that it is entitled to broad powers of search within 100...
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Everyone Who Doesn’t Have 16 Cell Phones, Poke Out Your Right Eye
Profile: Sharon Fisher
A couple of weeks ago, there was some discussion about the material seized from the office of Michael Cohen, the attorney for the Trump organization,...
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Attorneys Speculate on E-Discovery Implications of Cohen Files
Profile: Sharon Fisher
There’s one group of people that is really, really excited about the seizure of the potentially millions of legal documents associated with President Donald Trump: E-discovery people. “Discovery nerds — and political junkies — are having a field day with the materials seized by the...
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Too Much Bodycam Footage? Just Delete It
Profile: Sharon Fisher
As you may recall, a number of police departments, upon implementing body cameras, have found that the cameras themselves are only the half of it. The real problem is storing all the data the cameras collect. Some jurisdictions have found a solution to this problem: Just delete all that pesky...
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U.S. Tightens Laptop Border Search Restrictions
Profile: Sharon Fisher
Taking a laptop across the border? There’s good news and bad news. As you may recall, since 2009 there has been an ongoing struggle with how much right the U.S. government has to search laptops that people are carrying into the U.S., without a warrant, or even any particular reason other than...
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