The Post-Pandemic World - Contact Tracing and Privacy
Full piece available here. The COVID-19 crisis has pushed some companies and countries to develop contact tracing apps to know if users have been in contact wi…
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Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data
"“The point of the Apple-Google exposure notification design is to protect privacy and mitigate barriers to adoption,” said Jonathan Mayer, an assistant pr…
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CDA 230 Reform Grows Up: The PACT Act Has Problems, But It’s Talking About the Right Things
Alex Feerst, one of the great thinkers about Internet content moderation, has a revealing metaphor about the real-world work involved. “You might go into it thi…
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The FBI Is Secretly Using A $2 Billion Travel Company As A Global Surveillance Tool
"No one really knows just how often or widely the government has used the All Writs Act to force companies into surveillance, says Riana Pfefferkorn, assoc…
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Success Stories
The theory behind cybersecurity information sharing is clear and uncontroversial, even if the details of what to share, how best to do it and who to share with…
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Health Tech's big moment squandered
"“I am a longtime (well, several month) critic of contact tracing apps because I don't think they will work, especially in an environment like the Unit…
How Ranking and Recommendation Algorithms Influence How We See the World
Have you ever stumbled on a random video because of autoplay? Have you ever wondered why some items appear on your news feed or in search results while others d…
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Is TikTok out of time? Experts mull implications of ban
"“I am not aware of the app collecting more or qualitatively different data than other social media platforms. I do think TikTok has become the latest ligh…
The Senate’s twin threats to online speech and security
This is a cruel summer. The COVID-19 toll increases daily. Millions are out of work and risk losing their homes. The senseless loss of Black lives continues des…
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Should you delete TikTok? Only if you’re also going to delete Facebook
"Richard Forno, director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s cybersecurity graduate program, contends that TikTok is no more or less invasive…
Covid-19 should spark a reexamination of trade secrets’ stranglehold on information
As the world struggles to confront the Covid-19 pandemic, how to handle access to trade secrets — information that is valuable because others do not know it — i…
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Police Are Buying Access to Hacked Website Data
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, told Motherboard in an email, &qu…