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"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, has written about tools like Fawkes as “privacy protests,” where individuals want to thwart surveillance but not for criminal reasons. She has repeatedly seen what she called a “tired rubric" of surveillance, then countersurveillance and then anti-countersurveillance, as new monitoring technologies are introduced. Read more about This Tool Could Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition
August 2, 2020
The late Stephen Hawking famously warned that Artificial Intelligence might someday become so clever as to supersede humans.
But academic and author, Brett Frischmann, has a different fear. He argues that human beings are starting to act like machines. That they’re being groomed to become more robotic in their behaviour and interactions.
Also, why is the software development company GitHub interested in an old abandoned mineshaft in the very north of Scandinavia?
Guests
Thomas Dohmke – Vice President for Strategic Programs, GitHub Read more about “Reengineering Humanity” and the Arctic Code Vault
"With any internet platform, “we should be concerned about the risk that sensitive private data will be funneled to abusive governments, including our own,” Jennifer Granick, the ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel, said in a statement Saturday. “But shutting one platform down, even if it were legally possible to do so, harms freedom of speech online and does nothing to resolve the broader problem of unjustified government surveillance.”" Read more about Donald Trump Says He’s Going to Ban TikTok. But Can He Actually Do That?
The World Economic Forum partnered with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and a community of policy-makers, researchers, civil society advocates, legal scholars, and industry and design practitioners to convene a set of conversations about the challenges of Notice & Consent as a norm for data collection and processing, particularly when it comes to the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Read more about Redesigning Data Privacy: Reimagining Notice & Consent for human technology interaction
By Riana Pfefferkorn on July 30, 2020 at 3:56 pm
I want to share some musings I had about what criminal punishment means right now in America. I don’t really write about the basics of criminal law and procedure much – it’s not my focus, and I’m not well-read in it, so please excuse my fumbling discussion of the following concepts. Read more about What Does Retribution Mean Now? Thoughts on COVID-19, Prison, and Schadenfreude
The Schrems II judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will reshape the relationship between national security and global data flows. By invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement, the decision ends a two-decade transatlantic compromise on data exchange. The court found that U.S. surveillance practices were disproportionate and violated the fundamental rights of European Union citizens, who had no effective legal recourse to challenge potential U.S. abuses. Read more about Schrems II Offers an Opportunity—If the U.S. Wants to Take It
“I think consumers come up short here when it comes to research uses and there is little to be done to their relief under current law,” wrote Albert Gidari — Consulting Director of Privacy for Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society — in an email to The Daily." Read more about As facial recognition draws scrutiny nationwide, Stanford research raises questions closer to home
Let’s Talk Privacy & Technology host, Lourdes M. Turrecha, brings on Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law & Computer Sciences, Northeastern University and author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies, to talk about his book and his privacy takes on today’s new technologies. Read more about The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies
July 27, 2020
Riana Pfefferkorn, the Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, who has investigated and analyzed the ongoing encryption debate between law enforcement and the U.S. government for years, said these bills are a "full frontal nuclear assault on encryption in the United States." Read more about Encryption Under ‘Full-Frontal Nuclear Assault’ By U.S. Bills