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All’s Clear for Deepfakes: Think Again
The verdict was in, and it was a comforting one: Deepfakes are the “dog that never barked.” So said Keir Giles, a Russia specialist with the Conflict Studies Re…
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Contact tracing by app: life-saving or invasion of privacy?
"Americans need to be “extra careful,” said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, because techn…
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Would You Let The Government Track Your Smartphone If It Meant We Could Reopen Sooner?
"But even if enough people opted in to the system and chose to faithfully report their own infections and comply with self-isolation, plans like Google-App…
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Born in India, Cyber Peace Corps Trains Tacklers of Disinformation, Online Challenges
"AmeriCorps has no cyber-specific component though, and Scott Shackelford, cybersecurity program chair at Indiana University-Bloomington and Cyber Peace Fo…
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Privacy vs. public health: Where contact tracing fits
""People need to be confident that the software on their phones is behaving as advertised," Marshall Erwin, senior director of Trust & Securi…
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Proposed customer logs raise privacy, logistical concerns, New Orleans business group says
"As it stands, the effort could pose Constitutional issues, said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington. "If you are going to be e…
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Free movement or privacy? Pandemic forces new trade-offs
"Digital contact tracing is no substitute for human health care workers and medical testing, cautions Margaret Hu, an associate professor at Washington and…
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New 'EARN IT Act' Alternative Seeks $5 Billion to Hunt Child Predators Without Wrecking Encryption
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, labeled the bill a “sneak ban on…
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How Facebook’s oversight board could rewrite the rules of the entire internet
""If this becomes a mechanism to move more and more of the internet toward one single set of rules, that's a real loss," said Daphne Keller,…
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Safety or surveillance: drones and the COVID-19 pandemic
I spoke with Ryan Calo, a professor of law at the University of Washington who studies emerging tech and policy. He said it’s good that people are thinking crea…
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How contact tracing can help the U.S. get control over coronavirus
"And there are many reasons to be skeptical of such a system, said Jennifer Granick, the ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel. Tracking technology…
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How Zoom Colonized Our Lives
"Arvind Narayanan, who leads Princeton’s Web Transparency and Accountability Project, had heard chatter about Zoom for some time, but it was only when the…