The Right to Be Forgotten in the European Union
Abstract and Keywords This chapter discusses data protection aspects of liability of online intermediaries with special emphasis on the right to be forgotten a…
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Addressing Infringement: Developments in Content Regulation in the US and the DNS
Abstract and Keywords The reach of privately ordered online content regulation is wide and deepening. It is deepening with reference to the internet’s protocol…
Privacy and New Google-Apple COVID-19 Tracing Technology
On Monday, May 4, Google and Apple shared sample code for their new contact tracing technology—tools that they have jointly developed to help to slow the spread…
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New 'EARN IT Act' Alternative Seeks $5 Billion to Hunt Child Predators Without Wrecking Encryption
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, labeled the bill a “sneak ban on…
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How Facebook’s oversight board could rewrite the rules of the entire internet
""If this becomes a mechanism to move more and more of the internet toward one single set of rules, that's a real loss," said Daphne Keller,…
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Safety or surveillance: drones and the COVID-19 pandemic
I spoke with Ryan Calo, a professor of law at the University of Washington who studies emerging tech and policy. He said it’s good that people are thinking crea…
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How contact tracing can help the U.S. get control over coronavirus
"And there are many reasons to be skeptical of such a system, said Jennifer Granick, the ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel. Tracking technology…
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How Zoom Colonized Our Lives
"Arvind Narayanan, who leads Princeton’s Web Transparency and Accountability Project, had heard chatter about Zoom for some time, but it was only when the…
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Q&A: Cameras, Police, the Dangers of a Constantly Monitored Society
Catherine Crump is the director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley, where she researches the impact of new technology on c…
The EARN IT Act is a disaster amid the COVID-19 crisis
Before the novel coronavirus arrived on its shores, the United States had spent decades becoming a heavily digitized society. Now, the pandemic is deepening tha…
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Contact tracing apps are on the way. Will they help us get back to normal?
“It could be constantly telling you that you’re at risk when actually the risk was very low,” says Ryan Calo, an associate professor at the University of Washin…
A COVID-19 Balancing Act: Public Health and Privacy
Over the next month, states will start to loosen their COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions. Some of us will return to work, gather in small groups, and maybe eve…