"“It’s a combination of sloppy engineering and prioritizing growth,” said Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor of computer science and public affairs at…
""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…
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…
"Al Gidari, the consulting director of privacy at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society and a former top private attorney representing companies like…
""This bill… is clearly a ‘backdoor to a backdoor’ to encryption,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Sta…
"“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…