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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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An EARN IT Alternative That Might Actually Help Children
Yesterday, a group of Democratic congressmembers, headed by online speech and privacy champion Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), unveiled their answer to the disastrous…
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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…
COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Privacy: Studying Opinion and Preferences
Abstract There is growing interest in technology-enabled contact tracing, the process of identifying potentially infected COVID-19 patients by notifying all re…
The Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability
(Oxford University Press, edited by Giancarlo Frosio) The theoretical—and market—background against which the intermediary liability debate developed has chang…
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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…
Privacy and New Google-Apple COVID-19 Tracing Technology
On Monday, May 4, Google and Apple shared sample code for their new contact tracing technology—tools that they have jointly developed to help to slow the spread…
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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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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…