I’m unable to resist pointing out the profound bias built into everything Silicon Valley does these days. Google, it turns out, is planning to tell enterprise users of its word processor that words like “motherboard” and “landlord” are insufficiently inclusive for use in polite company. We won’t actually be forbidden to use those words.
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Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast – Interview with Orin Kerr
Our guest this week is noted computer law guru Orin Kerr, and the podcast is a deep dive into technology and law.
This Week in NSA: Snowden claims without substantiation that NSA employees are passing naked pix around. And Greenwald’s venture reports that GCHQ has developed the ability to send spam and to rig…
Social Media Laws Can Be Positively Anti-Social
By Michael Vatis on
Posted in Privacy Regulation
According to Dan Balz’s new book, the Obama campaign had its employees and volunteers log onto the campaign’s “Dashboard” application using their Facebook accounts, which allowed the campaign to see each person’s Facebook friend list. The campaign would then match the friends’ names to other information the campaign had amassed showing which of those…