Arooj Ahmed writes: If you believe that your data and information is perfectly safe and is well-protected by your phones, or if you think that when your phone offers you ‘end-to-end’ encryption and it really keeps your data protected, then you are wrong! Recently, three researchers from Johns Hopkins University carried [Read More…]
Paul Cassell writes: In an amicus brief for leading crime victims’ rights organizations, I explain why ex-FBI lawyer Clinesmith’s crime of altering an email as part of an effort to renew a warrant to surveil Dr. Carter Page made Page a “victim” under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. On January [Read More…]
Todd Shields, Kartikay Mehrotra, Naomi Nix, and Jennifer A Dlouhy report: The FBI arrested one man after a co-worker at a western Maryland restaurant reported seeing him in images of people assaulting the U.S. Capitol. A Texas man was charged after his ex-wife recognized him in a social-media video and [Read More…]
Some research may put you — or others — at risk. At risk of violations of law, but also at risk of violations of people’s privacy or causing harm to them (regardless of whether you are right or wrong in any attributions). Tanya Basu writes: As rioters stormed Capitol Hill [Read More…]