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Riana Pfefferkorn
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Encryption, Bad Bills, and Ripple Effects: How Riana Pfefferkorn Protects the Internet

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Encryption, Bad Bills, and Ripple Effects: How Riana Pfefferkorn Protects the Internet

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Q&A from Internet Society, by author Allison Cross

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Avoiding Mandatory Transparency’s Pitfalls in Online Safety Legislation

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Avoiding Mandatory Transparency’s Pitfalls in Online Safety Legislation

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Published in Lawfare

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Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC

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Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC

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Moderated Content host Evelyn Douek discusses Twitter’s data security problems and what this says about privacy regulation more generally with Whitney Merrill, the Data Protection Officer and Privacy Counsel at Asana and long-time privacy lawyer including as an attorney at the FTC, and Riana Pfefferkorn, a Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory.

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Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger’s End-to-End Encryption

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Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger’s End-to-End Encryption

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Riana Pfefferkorn of SIO spoke with Wired on Meta's expansion of end-to-end encryption in Messenger.

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Why Encryption and Online Safety Go Hand-in-Hand

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Why Encryption and Online Safety Go Hand-in-Hand

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Riana Pfefferkorn is a research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory and a member of the Global Encryption Coalition. This first appeared in Brookings TECH STREAM.

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America’s Anti-Hacking Laws Pose a Risk to National Security

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America’s Anti-Hacking Laws Pose a Risk to National Security

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A new piece in Brookings by Riana Pfefferkorn looks at anti-hacking laws

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A green wireframe model covers an actor’s lower face during the creation of a synthetic facial reanimation video, known as a deepfake, in London, Britain, February 12, 2019. Reuters TV via REUTERS
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The Threat Posed by Deepfakes to Marginalized Communities

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The Threat Posed by Deepfakes to Marginalized Communities

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When we’re faced with a video recording of an event—such as an incident of police brutality—we can generally trust that the event happened as shown in the video. But that may soon change, thanks to the advent of so-called “deepfake” videos that use machine learning technology to show a real person saying and doing things they haven’t.
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A member of the All India Student Federation teaches farmers about social media and how to use such tools as part of ongoing protests against the government. (Pradeep Gaur / SOPA Images / Sipa via Reuters Connect)
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New Intermediary Rules Jeopardize the Security of Indian Internet Users

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New Intermediary Rules Jeopardize the Security of Indian Internet Users

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India' information technology ministry recently finalized a set of rules that the government argues will make online service providers more accountable for their users’ bad behavior. Noncompliance may expose a provider to legal liability from which it is otherwise immune.
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Clubhouse in China: Is the data safe?

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Clubhouse in China: Is the data safe?

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The audio chat app “Clubhouse” went viral among Chinese-speaking audiences. Stanford Internet Observatory examines whether user data was protected, and why that matters.

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Clubhouse在中国：他的数据安全吗？

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Clubhouse在中国：他的数据安全吗？

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语音社交App “Clubhouse”，在中文听众中爆红。斯坦福大学网络观测平台（SIO）调查了这个App的数据是否保护它的用户数据，以及用户数据为何需要被保护。

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Riana Pfefferkorn
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Q&A with Riana Pfefferkorn, Stanford Internet Observatory Research Scholar

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Q&A with Riana Pfefferkorn, Stanford Internet Observatory Research Scholar

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Riana Pfefferkorn joined the Stanford Internet Observatory as a research scholar in December. She comes from Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, where she was the Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity.

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