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Tech Could Be Used to Track Employees—in the Name of Health
"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington who specializes in tech policy and ethics, warns that new surveillance measures may persist long af…
Privacy
A Path Back to Normal? Previewing the New Google-Apple COVID-19 Contact Tracing Tools with Albert Gidari
In this episode of Stanford Legal, hosts Pam Karlan and Joe Bankman are joined by Al Gidari, Consulting Director of Privacy for the Stanford Center for Internet…
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Don’t Stand So Close to Me: AI Cameras Police Social Distancing at Work
"But that ability and willingness to pivot is a cause for concern, said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.…
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What you need to know about coronavirus on Friday, May 15
""I think Americans do have to be ... very careful that we're not building surveillance that isn't going to work, or that we're stuck with…
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Do Contact Tracing Apps Pit Privacy Against The Public Good?
"Jennifer King, who serves as Director of Consumer Privacy for Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, noted that such terms of service ofte…
From Ed Tech to Contact Tracing Apps: Technology Safeguards During the Pandemic
Over 50 students enrolled in the University of Washington School of Law's course, Law in the Time of COVID-19, during spring quarter 2020. Because this time…
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Protecting Civil Liberties During COVID-19: Warner, Blumental Eshoo Schakowsky & DelBene Introduce the Public Health Privacy Act
"“This draft legislation addresses two of my biggest privacy concerns about the use of technology and information to respond to COVID-19. As the Act makes…
Out of the Political Trenches: Next Steps for Encryption Policy
The decades-old debate between governments and key tech companies over encryption has flared up again. From Australia to the U.S. Congress, encryption policy is…
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Apple-Google Virus-Tracking Rules Put Apps in a Privacy Bind
"The persistent obstacles to a tech fix for contact tracing underscore that there isn’t a clear-cut way to stop the virus while keeping privacy intact, sai…
Op-Ed: Coronavirus tracing apps are coming. Here’s how they could reshape surveillance as we know it
Last week, the world got a preview of how Google and Apple’s contact tracing project might look and function. Some privacy and security experts have expressed c…
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Client-Side Scanning and Winnie-the-Pooh Redux (Plus Some Thoughts on Zoom)
Return to Pooh Corner Seven months ago, I published this blog post about the idea of fighting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in an end-to-end encrypted wor…
Don’t use face recognition to fight COVID: We need disease surveillance, not a surveillance state
By EVAN SELINGER and WOODROW HARTZOG When it came to light that Clearview AI, the dubious tech company that scraped billions of images of people without their…