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One more time, Facebook is trying to simplify its lengthy privacy policy — and make it much shorter — to explain how it targets advertisements to its 1.35 billion users.
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FBI director warns against cellphone encryption
FBI Director James Comey gave a stark warning Thursday against smartphone data encryption, saying homicide cases could be stalled, suspects could go free and "justice may be denied because of a locked phone or an encrypted hard drive."
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Read More »Social media rules revisited by university system 
September 18, 2014
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A proposal to relax the rules governing student and faculty use of social media is expected to be approved Friday by University System of Maryland officials.
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Read More »Hacked photos of celebrities removed from some websites
As federal investigators worked Tuesday to determine who stole and posted nude photos of several female celebrities online, the images continued to be removed from various sites.
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Read More »Privacy matters unite often-split Supreme Court
Supreme Court justices found more common ground than usual this year, and nowhere was their unanimity more surprising than in a ruling that police must get a judge’s approval before searching the cellphones of people they’ve arrested.
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Read More »Panel endorses some NSA Internet monitoring
A bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has unanimously adopted a report that endorses some of the National Security Agency's Internet surveillance programs.
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Read More »2 lawyers challenge bans for withholding personal info
June 1, 2014
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Forty-three attorneys were suspended in March in one order from the Court of Appeals, but not for any sort of legal malpractice. Instead, they were punished for not providing their Social Security numbers to the Client Protection Fund of the Bar of Maryland in violation of a recently adopted Maryland Rule.
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Read More »After attack, eBay wants users to change passwords
E-commerce site eBay is asking users to change their passwords after a cyberattack compromised a database containing encrypted passwords.
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Read More »White House calls for more privacy laws
The White House is asking Congress to pass new privacy laws that would add more safeguards for Americans' data and provide more protections for emails sought in the course of a law enforcement investigation.
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Read More »Md. lawyer grapples with balance of security, privacy
David Medine was six days into his new job when a figurative bomb dropped on his desk.
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