"In the last week, Facebook disclosed a campaign by foreign interests – likely from Russia -- to disrupt the 2018 midterm elections and announced dramatic…
"Privacy advocates are excited about the bill’s expansiveness. Aleecia McDonald, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Network…
Co-authored with Evan Selinger The Trojans would have loved facial recognition technology. It’s easy to accept an outwardly compelling but ultimately illusory…
"Axon’s widespread reach in police tech means that if the company decides to implement face recognition, it could have sweeping, rapid effects. “If and whe…
Cross-posted from Scientific American. Imagine a world governed by smart technologies engineered to achieve three distinct yet interrelated normative ends: opt…
"Jennifer King, director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, said false identification is among her biggest conce…
"This was where the privacy push really got derailed, Jonathan Mayer, a technologist who was involved in the negotiations, told HuffPost. “This was a recu…
"Scott Shackelford is chair of Indiana University’s Cybersecurity Program. He says the conversation about election security has to go beyond equipment. “I…
"“The ACLU’s test demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt what many of us already know – that Amazon’s facial recognition tool is discriminatory ... and th…
"Perhaps, or perhaps not, said Woodrow Hartzog, who teaches law and computer science at Northeastern University. "The idea that this is simply neutral…
"“It’s not just about the one time you park, it’s about every time you park,” said Jen King, the Director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford Law School’s Cent…
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice’s “Cyber-Digital Task Force” released a report “assess[ing] the Department’s work in the cyber area.” The report,…