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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…
Privacy
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…
Contract tracing and preserving privacy: Mozilla Exec. on how to strike a balance
Tech companies are working to build digital contact tracing apps that will help track and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Mozilla Senior Director of Trust and S…
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Companies wrestle with growing cyber security threat: their own employees
"Omer Tene, vice-president of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, said: “Data breaches have been a huge issue. It’s understandable why…
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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…