The dangers of tech-driven solutions to COVID-19
Imagine a world in which governments and tech firms collaborate seamlessly and benevolently to fight the spread of COVID-19. Public-health officials use automat…
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Zoom Reverses Course and Promises End-to-End Encryption for All Users
""While I am sure the DoJ will be unhappy with Zoom's choice, I believe the anti-abuse controls that Zoom announced, such as verifying a phone num…
Amicus Brief of Cybersecurity Experts in Support of Malwarebytes' Cert Petition
Amicus brief in support of petitioner Malwarebytes' petition for certiorari in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software, authored by Phil Malone of the Juelsgaard IP…
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Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters' phones against them
""We vigorously protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement. We developed a process specifically for these…
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Terms of Disservice: A roundtable on digital privacy
This week on Galley, we're hosting a series of roundtable discussions about digital privacy, competition, algorithmic accountability and proposals for a new…
Security Experts' Letter on Transparency in Terrorist Content Regulation
This June 2020 letter from security researchers and practitioners urges that EU lawmakers finalizing the Terrorist Content Regulation preserve robust transparen…
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Contact Tracing Apps Aren't Going to Solve the Pandemic
"For all the hurdles and drawbacks, contact tracing apps are well worth using, says Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center fo…
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David Magerman’s Big Plan to Burn Down the Internet
"These apps, says Jen King, director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, “are basically just a front for collecti…
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Coronavirus contact tracing apps were tech's chance to step up. They haven't.
""It is something that launched and then sort of fell away," said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor and expert in tech policy a…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Cybersecurity experts give a thumbs up to the Apple-Google coronavirus alert system
"“We don't know that this kind of tool will work given how hard it is to calculate proximity with Bluetooth,” said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and c…
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Facebook Should Face Liability Over Ads, House Democrat Says
"“If half of the potential votes in Congress want to change this to push in the direction of more removals and the other half wants to change to push in th…
The Cost Of Contact Tracing
RYAN CALO: Who you know and where you are and your health status. GARCIA: Ryan Calo teaches law at the University of Washington. Unlike in many countries, ther…