From Ed Tech to Contact Tracing Apps: Technology Safeguards During the Pandemic
Over 50 students enrolled in the University of Washington School of Law's course, Law in the Time of COVID-19, during spring quarter 2020. Because this time…
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Clear and Present Danger: A History of Free Speech Special Edition – Daphne Keller & Kate Klonick
“Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal,” declared the headline of a recent Atlantic article by law professors Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods. The…
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Protecting Civil Liberties During COVID-19: Warner, Blumental Eshoo Schakowsky & DelBene Introduce the Public Health Privacy Act
"“This draft legislation addresses two of my biggest privacy concerns about the use of technology and information to respond to COVID-19. As the Act makes…
Out of the Political Trenches: Next Steps for Encryption Policy
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…
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Apple-Google Virus-Tracking Rules Put Apps in a Privacy Bind
"The persistent obstacles to a tech fix for contact tracing underscore that there isn’t a clear-cut way to stop the virus while keeping privacy intact, sai…
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Experts weigh in on Facebook’s new Oversight Board
Daphne, thanks again for joining us for this discussion. I've read some of the things you've written about the Oversight Board in a variety of places, b…
Op-Ed: Coronavirus tracing apps are coming. Here’s how they could reshape surveillance as we know it
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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Client-Side Scanning and Winnie-the-Pooh Redux (Plus Some Thoughts on Zoom)
Return to Pooh Corner 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…
Don’t use face recognition to fight COVID: We need disease surveillance, not a surveillance state
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…
Contract tracing and preserving privacy: Mozilla Exec. on how to strike a balance
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…
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Companies wrestle with growing cyber security threat: their own employees
"Omer Tene, vice-president of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, said: “Data breaches have been a huge issue. It’s understandable why…
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All’s Clear for Deepfakes: Think Again
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…