"The U.S. government has broad authority to request personal data in the case of a national emergency but does not have the legal authority, except in crim…
"Ryan Calo, an associate professor of law at the University of Washington and a drone technology expert, tells Inverse that he isn't too worried about…
"“The risks are the usual, says Ryan Calo, an associate professor at the University of Washington who studies tech ethics. “Government overreach or mission…
Can the state tell your favorite local restaurant to close, or tell you that you must stay at home unless it’s absolutely necessary to leave, because of an emer…
"“The balance between privacy and pandemic policy is a delicate one,” Al Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Socie…
"In the U.S., the government could legally request location data from telecom carriers or from Google, which has access to more-precise data belonging to i…
The new coronavirus is shaping up to be an enormous stress test for globalization. As critical supply chains break down, and nations hoard medical supplies and…
"Elizabeth Joh, a professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law, who studies criminal procedure and police surveillance, said that as cove…
“Basically, I see this as a cowardly measure to maintain plausible deniability that this is not about encryption,” Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surv…
"But, Riana Pfefferkorn said that the warrant highlighted the lengths to which law enforcement officers are willing to go pursue a suspect, likening it to…
"5G network slicing could be discriminatory: “Practices such as 5G network slicing,” AIC said, “have the potential to be used to circumvent the core net ne…
"Now, the bespectacled 42-year-old, who worked with Clinton when she was secretary of State and during her failed 2016 presidential bid, is reentering the…