Some Thoughts About Apple’s New Advanced Data Protection Feature
By Riana Pfefferkorn on December 14, 2022 at 6:41 pm
Law consistently lags behind technology, nowhere more so than in the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure. CIS is committed to closing this gap in a variety of ways: organizing specially-focused judicial training programs; forming strategic partnerships between the litigation community and the academic world to improve Fourth Amendment impact litigation; and sponsoring cross-disciplinary research bridging law, computer science, and social sciences to evaluate the impact of emerging technologies on digital privacy.
By Riana Pfefferkorn on December 14, 2022 at 6:41 pm
By Riana Pfefferkorn on May 10, 2022 at 5:55 pm
With the Supreme Court Read more about The End of Roe Will Bring About a Sea Change in the Encryption Debate
By Daphne Keller on April 6, 2022 at 6:00 am
This post is about what I consider one of the hardest questions, particularly under laws that create special data-access regimes for researchers. What data are platforms supposed to share, and what personal information will it disclose about Internet users? This question pits privacy goals against data-access and research goals. A strongly pro-privacy answer will curtail research into questions of great public importance. A strongly pro-research answer will limit users’ privacy rights. In between lie a lot of difficult calls and complex trade-offs. Read more about User Privacy vs. Platform Transparency: The Conflicts Are Real and We Need to Talk About Them
By Riana Pfefferkorn on March 9, 2022 at 7:27 pm
This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act: Read more about Ignoring EARN IT’s Fourth Amendment Problem Won’t Make It Go Away