"“Aggregate and anonymized location data may be useful to track trends, but public health officials agree that at this point in time, using individualized…
""I'm not against fighting this epidemic with data or tech," said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington researcher affiliated with Stanford&#…
Interviewee: Scott J. Shackelford, Executive Director, and Chair, Ostrom Workshop, and Indiana University-Bloomington Cybersecurity Program, USA PTC provides a…
"Governments accessing any kind of location data, whether anonymized or not, is always a privacy risk, even though health officials need it during a crisis…
If Typhoid Mary carried a cell phone, you can bet we would all want to know where she’d been over the last few days. Technology exists right now to trace the hi…
"“Now that we face a public health emergency, there are understandable questions as to whether technological solutions might be useful to slow the spread o…
"“[Unacast’s] privacy statement basically screams that it’s up to you to monitor which apps you use and your phone settings, if you don’t like the fact tha…
"Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the U.S. doesn’t have the infrastructure to support a…
"Because it’s voluntary, PrivateKit should be legal. But would it work? Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, predicted few people wi…
""With the pandemic, government, companies and research institutions are scrambling to respond in a way that makes optimal use of information about in…
""I think the question might be whether the means justify the ends," Jennifer King, director of privacy at Stanford University's Center for I…
"The U.S. government has broad authority to request personal data in the case of a national emergency but does not have the legal authority, except in crim…