The Limits of Location Tracking in an Epidemic
As Americans struggle to confront the COVID-19 outbreak, some have suggested that cell phone location tracking technology can help in the effort to contain the…
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Behind the global efforts to make a privacy-first coronavirus tracking app
""There's really never been a time in history where a clever app means the difference between widespread calamity and people being able to go abou…
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What are the biggest holes in data privacy that have been exacerbated by coronavirus?
"We've seen an explosion of efforts to create location-tracking techniques to fight the spread of COVID-19. The mobile advertising industry is legally…
Masks and our face-recognition future: How coronavirus (slightly) clouds the picture painted by tech firms
Facial recognition surveillance systems are ominous. People see how these tools threaten privacy and civil liberties and consider ways they might resist being t…
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Zoom, video conferencing apps under privacy commissioner's microscope
"Ryan Calo, a law professor and co-founder of the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington, said Zoom was undergoing "an enormous stress test&q…
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Google Reveals Location Data to Help Public Health Officials
""I think the privacy risks are very small here," says Albert Gidari, the director of privacy at the Center for Internet & Society at Stanfor…
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An unprecedented wave of personal data could be heading to federal agencies
"While this has been part of U.S. privacy policy for about 40 years, the rapid spread of the coronavirus could see data shared at an unprecedented scale —…
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A Feature on Zoom Secretly Displayed Data From People’s LinkedIn Profiles
"“It’s a combination of sloppy engineering and prioritizing growth,” said Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor of computer science and public affairs at…
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The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started
""It's as though, in suddenly shifting from the office to work from home, we didn't so much move the conference room into our kitchens as into…
How Much Privacy Should We Trade to Survive a Pandemic?
A number of countries, including South Korea, Italy, and Israel, have begun using digital tools to track the movement of people who are infected, identify those…
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Coronavirus pandemic sparks new calls for personal surveillance, and concerns
"Al Gidari, the consulting director of privacy at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society and a former top private attorney representing companies like…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Cybersecurity experts slam child protection bill that risks rolling back encryption
""This bill… is clearly a ‘backdoor to a backdoor’ to encryption,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Sta…