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Disengagements and the race for self-driving supremacy
Road conditions can have a profound effect on disengagements, with more complex urban roads leading to more disengagements. Conversely, highway driving is typic…
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How Location History Can Help Contain Covid-19 While Protecting Privacy
If Typhoid Mary carried a cell phone, you can bet we would all want to know where she’d been over the last few days. Technology exists right now to trace the hi…
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Data privacy erosions could leave a dangerous legacy
"“Now that we face a public health emergency, there are understandable questions as to whether technological solutions might be useful to slow the spread o…
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Like it or not, tech companies can use your phone location data to map social distancing
"“[Unacast’s] privacy statement basically screams that it’s up to you to monitor which apps you use and your phone settings, if you don’t like the fact tha…
Deal with ransomware the way police deal with hostage situations
When faced with a ransomware attack, a person or company or government agency finds its digital data encrypted by an unknown person, and then gets a demand for…
Vulnerability reporting is dysfunctional
In January, we released a study showing the ease of SIM swaps at five U.S. prepaid carriers. These attacks—in which an adversary tricks telecoms into moving th…
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Virus Hands World Leaders Sweeping Powers They May Never Give Up
"Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the U.S. doesn’t have the infrastructure to support a…
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Can your cellphone track coronavirus?
"Because it’s voluntary, PrivateKit should be legal. But would it work? Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, predicted few people wi…
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Coronavirus pandemic changes how your privacy is protected
""With the pandemic, government, companies and research institutions are scrambling to respond in a way that makes optimal use of information about in…
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EU regulator reminds telcos to not breach Net Neutrality during COVID-19 pandemic
"“Reasonable Traffic Management” as defined in the EU law, does not clearly emphasise that traffic management in times of congestion should be as applicati…
The battle against disinformation is global
Disinformation-spewing online bots and trolls from halfway around the world are continuing to shape local and national debates by spreading lies online on a mas…
Governing New Frontiers in the Information Age
Many pressing environmental and security threats now facing the international community may be traced to the frontiers. From climate change and cyber-attacks to…