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Washington's rush to smash tech's liability protection
"The DOJ proposals "would seriously curtail platforms' ability to moderate content and respond quickly to emerging problems — like new kinds of ab…
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Facebook, Google, Twitter Pledge Vigilance on Disinformation
"“Looking ahead to the November election, we are aware that the Covid-19 pandemic, widespread protests and other significant events can provide fodder for…
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Facebook, Twitter, Google describe efforts to Congress to prevent foreign interference in 2020 election
"Richard Salgado, Google’s director for law enforcement and information security matters, said the search engine created in 1998 recognizes that elections,…
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Relying on Silicon Valley to organize makes some protesters uneasy
""It's tricky," said Jen King, director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, noting how ubiquito…
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Zoom Reverses Course and Promises End-to-End Encryption for All Users
""While I am sure the DoJ will be unhappy with Zoom's choice, I believe the anti-abuse controls that Zoom announced, such as verifying a phone num…
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Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters' phones against them
""We vigorously protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement. We developed a process specifically for these…
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Terms of Disservice: A roundtable on digital privacy
This week on Galley, we're hosting a series of roundtable discussions about digital privacy, competition, algorithmic accountability and proposals for a new…
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Contact Tracing Apps Aren't Going to Solve the Pandemic
"For all the hurdles and drawbacks, contact tracing apps are well worth using, says Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center fo…
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David Magerman’s Big Plan to Burn Down the Internet
"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 collecti…
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Coronavirus contact tracing apps were tech's chance to step up. They haven't.
""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 a…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Cybersecurity experts give a thumbs up to the Apple-Google coronavirus alert system
"“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 c…
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Facebook Should Face Liability Over Ads, House Democrat Says
"“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 th…