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Google Reveals Location Data to Help Public Health Officials
""I think the privacy risks are very small here," says Albert Gidari, the director of privacy at the Center for Internet & Society at Stanfor…
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An unprecedented wave of personal data could be heading to federal agencies
"While this has been part of U.S. privacy policy for about 40 years, the rapid spread of the coronavirus could see data shared at an unprecedented scale —…
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A Feature on Zoom Secretly Displayed Data From People’s LinkedIn Profiles
"“It’s a combination of sloppy engineering and prioritizing growth,” said Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor of computer science and public affairs at…
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AI vs your career? What artificial intelligence will really do to the future of work
"So where does the big AI scare come from? A large part of the problem, as often, comes down to misunderstanding. There is one point that Frischmann was de…
The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online
GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE world are struggling to deal with the public health and economic challenges of coronavirus. While many have pointed to how authoritarian…
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The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started
""It's as though, in suddenly shifting from the office to work from home, we didn't so much move the conference room into our kitchens as into…
How Much Privacy Should We Trade to Survive a Pandemic?
A number of countries, including South Korea, Italy, and Israel, have begun using digital tools to track the movement of people who are infected, identify those…
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Hypersonic missiles may be unstoppable. Is society ready?
"And of course, the question of warfare itself raises its own massive ethical quandary. Some, like ethicist Patrick Lin, view it as a social problem, not a…
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Coronavirus pandemic sparks new calls for personal surveillance, and concerns
"Al Gidari, the consulting director of privacy at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society and a former top private attorney representing companies like…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Cybersecurity experts slam child protection bill that risks rolling back encryption
""This bill… is clearly a ‘backdoor to a backdoor’ to encryption,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Sta…
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The Technology 202: We asked more than 100 tech experts if U.S. should use location data to track coronavirus. They were split.
"“Aggregate and anonymized location data may be useful to track trends, but public health officials agree that at this point in time, using individualized…
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Privacy rights may become next victim of killer pandemic
""I'm not against fighting this epidemic with data or tech," said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington researcher affiliated with Stanford&#…