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Amicus brief in support of petitioner Malwarebytes' petition for certiorari in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software, authored by Phil Malone of the Juelsgaard IP & Innovation Clinic at SLS. Read more about Amicus Brief of Cybersecurity Experts in Support of Malwarebytes' Cert Petition
This week on Galley, we're hosting a series of roundtable discussions about digital privacy, competition, algorithmic accountability and proposals for a new social contract for online platforms. These discussions were sparked in part by the publication of a new book from Dipayan Ghosh, who leads the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project at Harvard and has worked at both Facebook and the White House as a technology and public policy advisor. Read more about Terms of Disservice: A roundtable on digital privacy
""We vigorously protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement. We developed a process specifically for these requests that is designed to honor our legal obligations while narrowing the scope of data disclosed," Richard Salgado, Google's director of law enforcement and information security, said in a statement." Read more about Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters' phones against them
This June 2020 letter from security researchers and practitioners urges that EU lawmakers finalizing the Terrorist Content Regulation preserve robust transparency requirements for governments to share data regarding (1) the number of content takedowns for which authorities also carried out investigation or prosecution and (2) the number of cases of content wrongly identified as terrorist. Read more about Security Experts' Letter on Transparency in Terrorist Content Regulation
"For all the hurdles and drawbacks, contact tracing apps are well worth using, says Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. They may not solve every problem, but they can vastly speed up the process of tracking and tracing. If not enough people have smartphones or don’t want to download apps, that’s an argument for more resources and education, he suggests.
“Whatever the theoretical problem, the benefit is obvious: Bluetooth contact tracing saves lives,” Gidari says." Read more about Contact Tracing Apps Aren't Going to Solve the Pandemic
"These apps, says Jen King, director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, “are basically just a front for collecting data.” Maybe an app claims to track your fertility; what it really wants, King explains, is to “sell that data to somebody else who would be interested in it,” like an insurance company doing actuarial analysis on birth rates." Read more about David Magerman’s Big Plan to Burn Down the Internet
"“We don't know that this kind of tool will work given how hard it is to calculate proximity with Bluetooth,” said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project." Read more about The Cybersecurity 202: Cybersecurity experts give a thumbs up to the Apple-Google coronavirus alert system
""It is something that launched and then sort of fell away," said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor and expert in tech policy and privacy who was an early skeptic that the apps could be effective. He said it makes sense for states to focus on human contact tracers, who "have been effective since the bubonic plague." Read more about Coronavirus contact tracing apps were tech's chance to step up. They haven't.
June 10, 2020
RYAN CALO: Who you know and where you are and your health status.
GARCIA: Ryan Calo teaches law at the University of Washington. Unlike in many countries, there is no centralized government app in the U.S. Instead, private companies like Apple and Google are involved in developing apps, and so are universities like MIT, and also some local governments. Read more about The Cost Of Contact Tracing
"“If half of the potential votes in Congress want to change this to push in the direction of more removals and the other half wants to change to push in the direction of fewer removals, that’s pretty hard to reconcile and keep the legislation,” said Daphne Keller, a lecturer at Stanford University’s law school.
Still, Keller said that the controversy around Trump’s order, which tech groups and Democrats slammed as an attack on free speech, could provide a spotlight for counter-proposals. Read more about Facebook Should Face Liability Over Ads, House Democrat Says
