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Last week, the world got a preview of how Google and Apple’s contact tracing project might look and function. Some privacy and security experts have expressed c…
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Seven months ago, I published this blog post about the idea of fighting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in an end-to-end encrypted wor…
By EVAN SELINGER and WOODROW HARTZOG
When it came to light that Clearview AI, the dubious tech company that scraped billions of images of people without their…
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 S…
"Omer Tene, vice-president of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, said: “Data breaches have been a huge issue. It’s understandable why…
The verdict was in, and it was a comforting one: Deepfakes are the “dog that never barked.” So said Keir Giles, a Russia specialist with the Conflict Studies Re…
"Americans need to be “extra careful,” said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, because techn…
Yesterday, a group of Democratic congressmembers, headed by online speech and privacy champion Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), unveiled their answer to the disastrous…
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The Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) 2019 ruling in Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Irelan…
"But even if enough people opted in to the system and chose to faithfully report their own infections and comply with self-isolation, plans like Google-App…
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There is growing interest in technology-enabled contact tracing, the process of identifying potentially infected COVID-19 patients by notifying all re…
(Oxford University Press, edited by Giancarlo Frosio)
The theoretical—and market—background against which the intermediary liability debate developed has chang…