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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…
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Q&A: Cameras, Police, the Dangers of a Constantly Monitored Society
Catherine Crump is the director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley, where she researches the impact of new technology on c…
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Contact tracing apps are on the way. Will they help us get back to normal?
“It could be constantly telling you that you’re at risk when actually the risk was very low,” says Ryan Calo, an associate professor at the University of Washin…
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Mobile apps may help track the spread of COVID-19, but at what cost to data privacy?
"“It’s absolutely a way to leverage the technology in phones in a way that will benefit public health,” says Northeastern University law professor Woodrow…
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Jackpot for liability lawyers
""What if I get sick at work, and I can show that my employer didn't take enough steps to prevent that colleague next to me from from coming in?&q…
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FBI Director Wray Previously Represented Facebook in Encryption Fight Before Turning Critic
"Although the details of the WhatsApp case Mr. Wray worked on are unclear, it is likely that the government was asking WhatsApp for a way to circumvent the…
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A Scramble for Virus Apps That Do No Harm
"“We’ve already learned what moving fast and breaking things can do to society,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeast…