Twitter started fact-checking Trump. Then Trump threatened to close it down
As Elizabeth Dwoskin reports for The Washington Post, Twitter has fact-checked President Trump for the first time. Trump had claimed on Twitter that mail-in bal…
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The FBI is mad because it keeps getting into locked iPhones without Apple’s help
The debate over encryption continues to drag on without end. In recent months, the discourse has largely swung away from encrypted smartphones to focus instead…
Op-Ed: Coronavirus tracing apps are coming. Here’s how they could reshape surveillance as we know it
Last week, the world got a preview of how Google and Apple’s contact tracing project might look and function. Some privacy and security experts have expressed c…
Don’t use face recognition to fight COVID: We need disease surveillance, not a surveillance state
By EVAN SELINGER and WOODROW HARTZOG When it came to light that Clearview AI, the dubious tech company that scraped billions of images of people without their…
Privacy and New Google-Apple COVID-19 Tracing Technology
On Monday, May 4, Google and Apple shared sample code for their new contact tracing technology—tools that they have jointly developed to help to slow the spread…
The EARN IT Act is a disaster amid the COVID-19 crisis
Before the novel coronavirus arrived on its shores, the United States had spent decades becoming a heavily digitized society. Now, the pandemic is deepening tha…
Reversing Turing
There is ample evidence to suggest that digital technologies are being designed and deployed not only to surveil and nudge us toward certain consumer preference…
Contact Tracing, Governments, and Data
Digital contact tracing apps have emerged in recent weeks as one potential tool in a suite of solutions that would allow countries around the world to respond t…
Contact-tracing apps are not a solution to the COVID-19 crisis
The unprecedented threat from the novel coronavirus has confined many Americans to their homes, distancing them from one another at great cost to local economie…
Zoom and the Problem of Cybersecurity Moral Hazard
A great deal of ink has been spilled regarding the many security vulnerabilities in Zoom teleconferencing software that were discovered after hundreds of millio…
Be very wary of Trump’s health surveillance plans
By Danielle Citron and Geng Ngarmboonanant Danielle Citron, a 2019 MacArthur Fellow, is a professor at Boston University School of Law. Geng Ngarmboonanant is…
Enlisting Big Data in the Fight Against Coronavirus
Written Testimony of Professor Ryan Calo Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Cantwell, and Members of the Committee: I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to testi…