The dangers of tech-driven solutions to COVID-19
Imagine a world in which governments and tech firms collaborate seamlessly and benevolently to fight the spread of COVID-19. Public-health officials use automat…
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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…
Security Experts' Letter on Transparency in Terrorist Content Regulation
This June 2020 letter from security researchers and practitioners urges that EU lawmakers finalizing the Terrorist Content Regulation preserve robust transparen…
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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…