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May 13, 2020
The decades-old debate between governments and key tech companies over encryption has flared up again. From Australia to the U.S. Congress, encryption policy is back on top of the agenda.
How can we have a more constructive debate about encryption? What issues should be prioritized? Which areas are closest to compromise? Read more about Out of the Political Trenches: Next Steps for Encryption Policy
May 11, 2020
Tech companies are working to build digital contact tracing apps that will help track and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Mozilla Senior Director of Trust and Security Marshall Erwin joins Yahoo Finance’s On The Move discuss.
Watch here. Read more about Contract tracing and preserving privacy: Mozilla Exec. on how to strike a balance
May 1, 2020
Over the next month, states will start to loosen their COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions. Some of us will return to work, gather in small groups, and maybe even dine at a neighborhood restaurant. But what will it take to keep us safe and prevent new spikes in infections? Many experts say we will not be out of the woods until there's a vaccine, but how would a national vaccination plan even work? Read more about A COVID-19 Balancing Act: Public Health and Privacy
April 29, 2020
Before COVID-19, the privacy discussion this year was mainly about the California Consumer Privacy Act. Now it's about healthcare data sharing, contact tracing and monitoring remote workers. Omer Tene of the International Asssociation of Privacy Professionals discusses the pandemic's influence on global privacy concerns.
In a video interview with Information Security Media Group, Tene discusses: Read more about Privacy in the Pandemic Era
April 1, 2020
A number of countries, including South Korea, Italy, and Israel, have begun using digital tools to track the movement of people who are infected, identify those who may have been exposed to the coronavirus, and measure the extent to which citizens are complying with stay-at-home orders. While the verdict is still out on whether these tools will ultimately prove effective at containing the spread of the virus during this first wave of the pandemic, the potential to automatically track the spread of the disease may be useful in the future. Read more about How Much Privacy Should We Trade to Survive a Pandemic?
March 28, 2020
Interviewee: Scott J. Shackelford, Executive Director, and Chair, Ostrom Workshop, and Indiana University-Bloomington Cybersecurity Program, USA
PTC provides a coffee-break update to an emerging threat. Or is it an emerging opportunity? Read more about Is IoT Going to be a Major Challenge for Global Cybersecurity?
March 10, 2020
Encrypted Messaging (Panel)
Moderator: Jon Callas, Senior Technology Fellow, ACLU
Panelists:
Riana Pfefferkorn, Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity, Stanford Center for Internet and Society;
Daniel J. Weitzner, Founding Director, MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative;
Matt Blaze, Georgetown University Read more about USENIX Enigma 2020 - Encrypted Messaging (Panel)
March 10, 2020
Tonya Hall talks to Brett Frischmann, Charles Widger Endowed university professor at Villanova University, about the idea that automated tech is slowly transforming humans into machines. Read more about How tech is making us more like machines rather than human
March 4, 2020
Ben explains why Apple may pay half a billion dollars to settle a class action suit, Dave has an update on last week's GPS tracking device story, and later in the show our interview with Riana Pfefferkorn. She is Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law. We’ll be discussing her recent article, “The earn it act: How to ban end-to-end encryption without actually banning it.” Read more about Get that thing off my car.
March 3, 2020
This episode features a lively (and – fair warning – long) interview with Daphne Keller, Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center. We explore themes from her recent paper on regulation of online speech. Read more about Will the First Amendment Kill Free Speech in America?