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#87: High School Surveillance Debate
If you’re looking for a nuanced, thoughtful debate on government surveillance, you probably won’t find it in Congress. But look no further than American high...
#86: Supreme Court Decides in Spokeo
Spokeo is a search engine for people. But unlike your phone book, Spokeo claims to glean its information from public databases, such as social media...
#85: Privacy in the Golden Age of Surveillance
In the “Golden Age of Surveillance,” are limits on government data collection really enough to protect privacy? Is mass surveillance inevitable? In the past, there...
#84: WhatsApp with Brazil?
WhatsApp has over a billion users worldwide, and the Facebook-owned encrypted messaging app is particularly popular in Brazil, where it’s used by 93% of Internet...
#83: Europe’s War on Google
News broke yesterday that Google will soon face a 3 billion euro fine from the European Commission after 6 years of antitrust investigations from EU...
#82: Tech Policy in Europe
The European Union (EU) is an interesting case for tech policy. While individual member states get direction from Brussels, where the EU is headquartered, they...