Data Privacy: New EU Laws Coming in May
"The European Union is expected to implement sweeping new data privacy laws in May. Read more about Data Privacy: New EU Laws Coming in May
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"The European Union is expected to implement sweeping new data privacy laws in May. Read more about Data Privacy: New EU Laws Coming in May
"Not to mention its track record. “It’s not just being able to show what happened but being able to show that the data should be believed,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies driverless car regulations. “And then having the resources on all sides—that’s government investigators, plaintiffs, even defendant companies—to be able to analyze that data, understand it, and model it.”" Read more about What Happens When a Self-driving Car Is at Fault?
"“If you trust Amazon with your data, as many people do, then delivery to the trunk of your car is a safe way to getting your package, and perhaps safer than in-home delivery,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. “This is another example of trading off privacy and security for convenience.”" Read more about Amazon will now deliver to your car — but you might pay for it in privacy
"Malkia Cyril, a Black Lives Matter activist in Oakland, Calif., who is also the executive director for the Center for Media Justice, was among a coalition of more than 70 civil rights groups that pressured Facebook in 2017 to fix its “racially-biased” content moderation system. Among the changes the coalition sought was an appeals process for posts that are taken down. Read more about Facebook finally explains why it bans some content, in 27 pages
"Thirteen civil society organisations (NGOs) have submitted a complaint to Portugal's National Communications Authority (Anacom), urging the regulator to prohibit so-called zero-rating offers. According to Thomas Lohninger, Executive Director of epicenter.works, a member organisation of European Digital Rights (EDRi), Portugal has the "worst net neutrality violations in Europe"." Read more about Portuguese NGOs urge Anacom to block zero-rating offers
""Once this sort of behavior becomes normalized, it becomes harder to push back on both as a consumer and as a matter of policy," said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University." Read more about With in-car delivery, Amazon is testing how much privacy you'll give up — even as backlash rocks Facebook
"There probably are good reasons to keep deleted profiles for some period of time — for example, to prevent or detect repeat users or fake users, etc,” Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, wrote in an email. “But that doesn’t mean forever.”" Read more about A Match.com glitch reactivated a bunch of old profiles, raising concerns about user data
"“I’m worried that a lot of people have invested a lot of hope in G.D.P.R., and I’m not sure it’s going to deliver,” said Ben Scott, a senior adviser to the Open Technology Institute at New America, a think tank based in Washington. “It will all depend on how it’s going to be enforced.”" Read more about How Looming Privacy Regulations May Strengthen Facebook and Google
"At the hearing, Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, succinctly put the kibosh on this notion. She observed that from 2015 through 2017, Comcast repurchased $16 billion of its own stock. "If they took this money they could deploy a fiber network to 80 to 160 million people in the United States." She could have gone further: In 2017, Comcast, Verizon and AT&T earned a combined profit of $82.3 billion on revenues of more than $371 billion. Read more about California's plan to protect net neutrality will shield consumers from telecom bullies
"This is a “special moment” in the history of data privacy and data protection, says Omer Tene, vice-president and chief knowledge officer for the International Association of Privacy Professionals(IAPP). Read more about Data protection is a business issue, says IAPP
"Jennifer Granick had harsh words at the Our Security Advocates Conference for the growing state of mass surveillance and government hacking in the United States.
Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, took the stage at OURSA on Tuesday to discuss the state of modern surveillance and hacking performed by the U.S. government, arguing that both cross the line of traditional legal searches. Read more about Government hacking tactics questioned at OURSA
"We caught up with Malkia Cyril, founder and executive director of the group, to talk about organizing, digital privacy, and what comes next for Defend Our Movements. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Read more about OpSec for activists
"“Something goes wrong, but there’s no perpetrator,” said Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington Law School who focuses on the intersection of tort law and technology, "because nobody intended this behavior.” Read more about Self-Driving Cars, Thinking Machines Will Test Limits Of Tort Law
"“If Tesla’s going to keep asserting that, and particularly if they’re going to keep crediting NHTSA for it, then I think they need to provide the necessary analysis, caveats and qualifications behind that number,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina’s School of Law, who studies driverless-car regulations. Read more about Tesla Keeps Using Disputed Crash Stat to Defend Autopilot
"Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), noted that “increasingly, modern surveillance is mass surveillance” which can be facilitated by new technologies and the internet.
Secretive large scale surveillance differs from warrant-directed searches by the volume and depth of data and could be abetted by the ease of converting in-home appliances with microphones and cameras into “surveillance machines”, she said." Read more about All-woman tech panel warns of inadequate online legal protections
"Wiener's legislation is "the only state-level bill that fully restores all of the 2015 net neutrality protections," Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick told the committee. "That's why it's widely viewed as a net neutrality model bill, and that's why [former] FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who literally wrote the 2015 order, supports this bill." Read more about Bad news for AT&T and Comcast: Calif. Senate panel OKs net neutrality bill
"Scott Shackelford, associate professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, and Cybersecurity Program Chair, at IU-Bloomington told us "This important study highlights the sad fact that tech companies are simply not doing enough to comply with the regulatory requirements Congress has put into place to help protect vulnerable, and impressionable, kids." Read more about Google Responds to Troubling Report of Apps Tracking Kids
"Indeed, as Europe is pushing for more and more use of platforms to censor, it's important that someone gets them to understand how these plans almost inevitably backfire. Daphne Keller at Stanford recently submitted a comment to the EU about its plan, noting just how badly demands for censorship of "illegal content" can turn around and do serious harm. Read more about How Government Pressure Has Turned Transparency Reports From Free Speech Celebrations To Censorship Celebrations
"Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick countered that stance, saying internet providers could simply pay for the infrastructure themselves. Meanwhile, a lack of competition means residents in parts of the state have access to only one internet provider, a situation she says the lack of net neutrality regulations will exacerbate.
"The problem is not that we need to get them more money that they don't already have," she said. "The problem is that we don't have competition.""
Read more about Net neutrality rules move past first hurdle in California
"“[The committee’s analysis] recommends removing the bill's protections against using interconnection practices to circumvent the bill's net neutrality protections,” Stanford Law professor and net neutrality expert Barbara van Schewick wrote in a detailed analysis of the recommendations. Read more about California Democrats Want to Weaken Bill That Would Protect Net Neutrality