"“There’s still a whole ecosystem predicated on sucking as much information from people’s phones as possible,” Jen King, the director of consumer privacy a…
"Privacy lawyers say the collection of health data by nonhealth entities is legal in most U.S. states, provided there is sufficient disclosure in an app’s…
"Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said the documents could raise concerns about antitrust and how Faceb…
"Stanford Law’s Jen King is more than familiar with the potential policy pitfalls unique to this area of data collection. As director of consumer privacy f…
"If voice-based accent detection can determine a person’s ethnic background, it opens up a new category of information that is incredibly interesting to th…
Co-authored by Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger Turns out, you can’t create an idyllic global village by fetishizing connecting people. In the most recent cha…
"“I think, realistically, if you’re looking at superpower intelligence agencies, they would be able to access the data regardless of whether it’s stored in…
"Tech companies are rushing to get a seat at the table for a federal data privacy framework that could have major implications for their businesses. The pu…
"California recently passed a new privacy law that would give Californians some power over the data companies’ hold on them. Industry groups hope to defang…
"“The laws are strict,” Dr. Jennifer King from Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society told Gizmodo. “But if you’re doing kind of a one-off o…
"If Apple wants to truly be an advocate for consumer privacy, it could take the lead in building a better system—one that lets its customers more directly…
"Privacy advocates are excited about the bill’s expansiveness. Aleecia McDonald, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Network…