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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…
The Cost Of Contact Tracing
RYAN CALO: Who you know and where you are and your health status. GARCIA: Ryan Calo teaches law at the University of Washington. Unlike in many countries, ther…
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Courts and lawyers struggle with growing prevalence of deepfakes
"As the technology grows in complexity, making it more difficult to spot fakes, attorneys and judges will have to decide how to manage deepfake evidence an…
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Google got rich from your data. DuckDuckGo is fighting back
"DuckDuckGo has loudly criticised Google’s efforts. Weinberg and DuckDuckGo general counsel Megan Gray, who previously worked at the US Federal Trade Commi…
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Los Angeles is tracking every person who rides a rental scooter
"Israel has already announced plans to use tracking data in this way, prompting Al Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Inte…
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Stalkerware sees all, and US laws haven't stopped its spread
"Law professor Danielle Citron of Boston University, who has studied stalkerware, applauded the settlement, which she said sets a mold that similar apps mu…
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The police want your phone data. Here’s what they can get — and what they can’t.
"“Basically, anything that a provider has that it can decode, law enforcement is getting it,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for…
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Google gives scientists access to 300 million people's smartphone data
"Some privacy experts are not fretting about Google’s data collection. Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor, said concerns could involve the…
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Police are using protests as an excuse to unleash new surveillance tech
"Catherine Crump, an assistant clinical professor at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law, and director of the Samuelson Law, Technology &am…
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Maine Defends Broadband Privacy Law Against First Amendment Challenge
"The legal papers include an affidavit from Princeton University's privacy expert and computer scientist Jonathan Mayer, who argues that broadband prov…
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Contact-Tracing Apps Could Become Permanent Once the Pandemic Is Over
"Omer Tene, chief knowledge officer at the International Association of Privacy Professionals, spoke of the possibility of function creep, where the use of…