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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…
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Courts and lawyers struggle with growing prevalence of deepfakes
"As the technology grows in complexity, making it more difficult to spot fakes, attorneys and judges will have to decide how to manage deepfake evidence an…
The Legal Academy, Episode 4: Danielle Citron
Here is Episode 4 of The Legal Academy, my new show about law professors. The guest this week is Danielle Citron of Boston University Law School. Topics includ…
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Google got rich from your data. DuckDuckGo is fighting back
"DuckDuckGo has loudly criticised Google’s efforts. Weinberg and DuckDuckGo general counsel Megan Gray, who previously worked at the US Federal Trade Commi…
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Sharing is caring, unless it’s misinformation
"Ryan Calo is an investigator with the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. He says there's a reason why false information is ever…
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Los Angeles is tracking every person who rides a rental scooter
"Israel has already announced plans to use tracking data in this way, prompting Al Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Inte…
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Missing Link: How states use law to override encryption on the Internet
""Does that mean that you don't actually need the law at all?" Asks Riana Pfefferkorn, an encryption policy expert at Stanford University and…