Contact Tracing, Governments, and Data
Digital contact tracing apps have emerged in recent weeks as one potential tool in a suite of solutions that would allow countries around the world to respond t…
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Privacy in the Pandemic Era
Before COVID-19, the privacy discussion this year was mainly about the California Consumer Privacy Act. Now it's about healthcare data sharing, contact trac…
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Privacy groups are still trying to get documents unsealed in Facebook encryption case
"“[U]sers of electronic communications services, and the providers of those services themselves, would not know whether federal law requires providers to w…
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ACLU, Washington Post Fight for Look at Sealed Ruling in Facebook Encryption Case
"ACLU Surveillance and Cybersecurity counsel Jennifer Granick said O’Neill misstated the Wiretap Act. “The district court did not provide any information…
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Giving up privacy in the name of public health
"In recent news, Google and Apple teamed up to build a Bluetooth-enabled feature that sends alerts to users who might be in close contact with an infected…
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Companies bet on AI cameras to track social distancing, limit liability
"“The question becomes whether the tech remains after the public health problem goes away, and that is the real privacy fear,” said Al Gidari, a privacy ex…
Contact-tracing apps are not a solution to the COVID-19 crisis
The unprecedented threat from the novel coronavirus has confined many Americans to their homes, distancing them from one another at great cost to local economie…
The Ethical Use of Personal Data to Build Artificial Intelligence Technologies: A Case Study on Remote Biometric Identity Verification
ABSTRACT: Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have the capacity to do a great deal of good in the world, but whether they do so is not only dependent upon…
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Facebook and Google Survey Data May Help Map Covid-19's Spread
"Jen King, the director of consumer privacy at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, points out that even with guidelines from CMU’s review board in…
Zoom and the Problem of Cybersecurity Moral Hazard
A great deal of ink has been spilled regarding the many security vulnerabilities in Zoom teleconferencing software that were discovered after hundreds of millio…
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Big Data and The Future of Driving
However, data does come with a downside. In a statement about self-driving cars, Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who st…
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Bitcoin Messenger Explores Censorship Resistance During Coronavirus Crisis
"Riana Pfefferkorn, the associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, called the EARN IT Act a “sta…