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…
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Contact tracing by app: life-saving or invasion of privacy?
"Americans need to be “extra careful,” said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, because techn…
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An EARN IT Alternative That Might Actually Help Children
Yesterday, a group of Democratic congressmembers, headed by online speech and privacy champion Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), unveiled their answer to the disastrous…
Facebook Filters, Fundamental Rights, and the CJEU’s Glawischnig-Piesczek Ruling
Full paper available at GRUR International. Abstract The Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) 2019 ruling in Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Irelan…
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Would You Let The Government Track Your Smartphone If It Meant We Could Reopen Sooner?
"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…
COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Privacy: Studying Opinion and Preferences
Abstract There is growing interest in technology-enabled contact tracing, the process of identifying potentially infected COVID-19 patients by notifying all re…
The Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability
(Oxford University Press, edited by Giancarlo Frosio) The theoretical—and market—background against which the intermediary liability debate developed has chang…
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Born in India, Cyber Peace Corps Trains Tacklers of Disinformation, Online Challenges
"AmeriCorps has no cyber-specific component though, and Scott Shackelford, cybersecurity program chair at Indiana University-Bloomington and Cyber Peace Fo…
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Privacy vs. public health: Where contact tracing fits
""People need to be confident that the software on their phones is behaving as advertised," Marshall Erwin, senior director of Trust & Securi…
The Marco Civil da Internet and Digital Constitutionalism
Abstract and Keywords Between 2009 and 2014, Brazilian civil society groups and government engaged with and ultimately approved the Marco Civil da Internet (Ci…