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Austria’s online hate speech law prompts question marks about ‘overblocking’

Date published:
July 24, 2020
Euractiv
"A law is being pushed through in great haste and “with a hot needle,” said Thomas Lohninger, head of the network policy NGO ‘epicenter.works’ in an interview with EURACTIV Germany.

Lohninger does not oppose legal regulation of platform content moderation in principle, and says that online hate speech is an urgent problem and that the creation of authorised representatives is a positive development." Read more about Austria’s online hate speech law prompts question marks about ‘overblocking’
We Won't Find Out How the DOJ Tried to Force Facebook to Change Its Encryption

By Riana Pfefferkorn on July 22, 2020 at 2:37 pm

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rebuffed my attempt to unseal information about the Department of Justice's unsuccessful secret effort to force Facebook to change the encryption of its Messenger app so that it could wiretap criminal suspects' voice calls. Read more about We Won't Find Out How the DOJ Tried to Force Facebook to Change Its Encryption
Ninth Circuit Memorandum Affirming District Court

Publication Date:
July 22, 2020
Publication Type:
Litigation Brief
Unpublished memorandum disposition by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the district court's denial of the petition. Read more about Ninth Circuit Memorandum Affirming District Court
The coronavirus is exacerbating a crisis on social media. Human rights activists could pay the price.

Date published:
July 22, 2020
The Washington Post
"The rapporteurs’ message, according to Stanford researcher Daphne Keller, was that “using filters in this context is going to take down news reporting. It’s going to take down counter-speech. It’s going to take down things like the Syrian Archive.”' Read more about The coronavirus is exacerbating a crisis on social media. Human rights activists could pay the price.
GEDmatch confirms data breach after users’ DNA profile data made available to police

Date published:
July 22, 2020
TechCrunch
"“The acknowledgement of an issue is a start, but if a ‘resolution’ means simply correcting the error, there are many questions that remain,” Elizabeth Joh, a professor of law at University of California, Davis School of Law, told TechCrunch." Read more about GEDmatch confirms data breach after users’ DNA profile data made available to police
The Post-Pandemic World - Contact Tracing and Privacy

Author(s):
Jen King
Publication Date:
July 21, 2020
Publication Type:
Other Writing
Full piece available here: https://www.ia-forum.org/Files/July%202020%20IA%20Forum.pdf Read more about The Post-Pandemic World - Contact Tracing and Privacy
Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data

Date published:
July 20, 2020
The New York Times
"“The point of the Apple-Google exposure notification design is to protect privacy and mitigate barriers to adoption,” said Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton." Read more about Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data
CDA 230 Reform Grows Up: The PACT Act Has Problems, But It’s Talking About the Right Things

By Daphne Keller on July 16, 2020 at 6:02 pm

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The FBI Is Secretly Using A $2 Billion Travel Company As A Global Surveillance Tool

Date published:
July 16, 2020
Forbes
"No one really knows just how often or widely the government has used the All Writs Act to force companies into surveillance, says Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “As long as the government can get away with secret orders to companies that don't fight back, and judges continue to sign off on the orders the government drafts for them, we won't know.”" Read more about The FBI Is Secretly Using A $2 Billion Travel Company As A Global Surveillance Tool
Health Tech's big moment squandered

Date published:
July 15, 2020
Politico
"“I am a longtime (well, several month) critic of contact tracing apps because I don't think they will work, especially in an environment like the United States where we don't have adequate testing and non-compliance with masking and social distancing is rampant.” — University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, who has studied public trust in contact tracing apps." Read more about Health Tech's big moment squandered

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