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by declan 12y ago
> Where are all the NSA "reforms" now? Yep. It's been ~18 months since we first heard of Edward Snowden, and there have been no significant policy (as in, presidential executive order) or legal changes to NSA surveillance
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by declan 12y ago
> Is there a way to disassociate enforcement from penalizing? Do a Google search for "predatory agency." It's an idea that's been kicking around the law+econ community for 20+ years. Think the GAO on steroids, and at
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by declan 12y ago
That's why I said "new legislative initiatives" and not "appointments."
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by declan 12y ago
Much of this was known before, including the FBI's anonymous letter attempting to provoke a suicide. As others said elsewhere in this thread, documents came out during the Church Committee. I wrote this 15 years ago when I worked at Ti
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by declan 12y ago
> The Freedom Act is likely better than whatever a Republican controlled legislative branch will pass In terms of passing new legislative initiatives (modulo some appropriations stuff), the legislative branch is already effectively Rep
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by declan 12y ago
I've followed the EFF since the 1990s (and once had an @eff.org mailing address) so I may have some insight. Seth, one of their technologists who posts here, would have more: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=scho
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by declan 12y ago
Yes, they did: "Groupon has agreed to change its product name" http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/11/groupon-has-agreed-to-chan... The legal team of course reviews product names pre-launch. This about-f
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by declan 12y ago
Compare to the Stanford Shopping Center, an outdoor mall on the SF peninsula. Parking is difficult when the weather is nice, and sometimes even when it's not. It's a nice place to walk around outdoors and designed to be pedestrian
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by declan 12y ago
>This has to have been run by Groupon legal, right? Yep. And that portion was in bold. Groupon has officially backed down.
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by declan 12y ago
>Consistency / familiarity is a very important part of developing UIs/UXs that are intuitive. This. My understanding is that Google's adoption of Material Design is in large part intended to make apps more intuitive so the
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by declan 12y ago
Police abuses of civil asset forfeiture have been around longer than many HN readers have been alive. Here's an example of civil asset forfeiture abuse in 1991 (the practice extends back to at least 1985), which was the subject of cong
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Google: Behind enemy lines in our war against account hijackers(googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
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Why Silicon Valley Should Not Normalize Relations with Washington, DC(cypress.com)
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by declan 12y ago
>I don't understand how the people who play these games can motivate themselves to get up in the morning. That's one reason I decamped to the SF bay area. I have friends still living in DC (or one of its inner 'burbs) who
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by declan 12y ago
Read his book: http://www.skatingonstilts.com/
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by declan 12y ago
Welcome to the delightful world of Washington, D.C. realpolitik! A third possibility is that he honestly believes his position is the correct one--or is holding out the possibility of returning to a .gov/.mil job in this or a future ad
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by declan 12y ago
I've known Stewart Baker, the ex-NSA GC quoted in the linked article, for about 15 years--not incredibly well, but well enough that he'd show up at parties I held in my home when I was living in D.C. before moving to the SF bay ar
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Verizon, AT&T tracking their users with ‘super-cookies’(washingtonpost.com)
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by declan 12y ago
> would we ever have had a Martin Luther King Here's a possibly-relevant excerpt from an article I wrote for CNET on the topic (before I left earlier this year to found http://recent.io/ ): ...Project Shamrock had a
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by declan 12y ago
It just takes one neighbor to temporarily create a public WiFi connection for your regularly-scanning-for-open-hotspot "smart TV" to dump its entire cache of logs over HTTP. (Now it may not be designed to do that, of course, but w
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by declan 12y ago
Yes, you should know what you're getting into. Especially after the U.S. Supreme Court's Grokster decision. I posted a pseudocode liability IF-ELSEIF-ELSE tree here a few weeks ago (replace "distributing" with "offe
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by declan 12y ago
I looked into these legal questions in some detail in an article I wrote for CNET (before leaving to found http://recent.io/ earlier this year). The short answer is that Verizon has more leeway than it would if it's a
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by declan 12y ago
This is excellent! I've taught a graduate journalism class in the past and <danso>'s approach here is inspiring -- I hope other instructors pay attention. Though note the class appears to be "COMM273D/Public Affair
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by declan 12y ago
Yep, I'm seeing the same redesigned page. I get the new page with Chrome (OS X) both logged-in and incognito, and also with Safari, but I see the old page in Firefox.
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by declan 12y ago
I did essentially the same thing before leaving CBS/CNET earlier this year to found http://recent.io/ -- saving salary over multiple years, buying a smaller house on the SF peninsula rather than a bigger one with a lar
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by declan 12y ago
>I can't believe someone, especially in tech... Remember, the author of this article (who of course didn't continue working there) isn't in tech. She previously wrote about working at a non-profit theater company and about
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by declan 12y ago
Yep, Magic Leap is headquartered in Florida, but they didn't get the investment until they opened an office in Palo Alto: http://recode.net/2014/10/20/look-who-else-is-joining-google... "People fami
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Hoverboard? Still in the Future(nytimes.com)
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by declan 12y ago
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/465?hl=en "When you delete items from your Search History, they are no longer associated with your Google Account." Whether you think that's sufficient or
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by declan 12y ago
Assuming that Apple does disclose this adequately -- meaning they'd be legally in the clear -- I'd still want to know the answers to: How do I delete the records of my searches saved on Apple's serves? (Google lets me delet

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