“I think consumers come up short here when it comes to research uses and there is little to be done to their relief under current law,” wrote Albert Gidari — Co…
"“We vigorously protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement,” Richard Salgado, Google’s director of law enforce…
Riana Pfefferkorn, the Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, who has investigated and analyzed t…
Unpublished memorandum disposition by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the district court's denial of the petition. * Publication Type:Litigat…
"“The acknowledgement of an issue is a start, but if a ‘resolution’ means simply correcting the error, there are many questions that remain,” Elizabeth Joh…
Full piece available here. The COVID-19 crisis has pushed some companies and countries to develop contact tracing apps to know if users have been in contact wi…
"“The point of the Apple-Google exposure notification design is to protect privacy and mitigate barriers to adoption,” said Jonathan Mayer, an assistant pr…
"“I am a longtime (well, several month) critic of contact tracing apps because I don't think they will work, especially in an environment like the Unit…
"“I am not aware of the app collecting more or qualitatively different data than other social media platforms. I do think TikTok has become the latest ligh…
"Richard Forno, director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s cybersecurity graduate program, contends that TikTok is no more or less invasive…
On July 2, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a full-committee hearing at which it made significant changes to the pending EARN IT Act bill, S.3398, about whic…
"Wide-ranging in its focus, an analysis from Riana Pfefferkorn of Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society shows that it “isn’t just aimed at Apple, Goog…