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Privacy rights may become next victim of killer pandemic
""I'm not against fighting this epidemic with data or tech," said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington researcher affiliated with Stanford&#…
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Is IoT Going to be a Major Challenge for Global Cybersecurity?
Interviewee: Scott J. Shackelford, Executive Director, and Chair, Ostrom Workshop, and Indiana University-Bloomington Cybersecurity Program, USA PTC provides a…
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MIT Researchers Launch Location-Tracking Effort for the New Coronavirus
"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…
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How Location History Can Help Contain Covid-19 While Protecting Privacy
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…
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Data privacy erosions could leave a dangerous legacy
"“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…
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Like it or not, tech companies can use your phone location data to map social distancing
"“[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…
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Virus Hands World Leaders Sweeping Powers They May Never Give Up
"Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the U.S. doesn’t have the infrastructure to support a…
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Can your cellphone track coronavirus?
"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…
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Coronavirus pandemic changes how your privacy is protected
""With the pandemic, government, companies and research institutions are scrambling to respond in a way that makes optimal use of information about in…
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In the battle against coronavirus, personal privacy is at risk
""I think the question might be whether the means justify the ends," Jennifer King, director of privacy at Stanford University's Center for I…
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Government efforts to track virus through phone location data complicated by privacy concerns
"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…
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The Value and Ethics of Using Phone Data to Monitor Covid-19
"“The risks are the usual, says Ryan Calo, an associate professor at the University of Washington who studies tech ethics. “Government overreach or mission…