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"Jennifer King is Director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford Law School and a self-described “privacy zealot.” When I told her Hannah’s story, Jennifer immediately suspected it had to do with the internet.

“If she went to a site that was specifically on that topic, that site could’ve profiled her through cookies,” said King. “That could’ve been the thing that did her in.”" Read more about You Asked, We Answered: Are My Health Records Being Sold To Advertisers?

"“You get outrages of the day and lawmakers say, ‘I want do something,’ and you can pass a bad law,” says Ryan Singel, a media and strategy fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society." Read more about What Government Gets Wrong About Technology

"Two Microsoft employees sat opposite one another in a Washington State Senate hearing room last Wednesday. Ryan Harkins, the company’s senior director of public policy, spoke in support of a proposed law that would regulate government use of facial recognition. “We would applaud the committee and all of the bill sponsors for all of their work to tackle this important issue,” he said." Read more about Microsoft Looms Over the Privacy Debate in Its Home State

""Apple typically encrypts those backups in a way that provides security against hackers while still also enabling Apple to provide the decrypted data to law enforcement," Pfefferkorn says." Read more about Apple iCloud: How safe is it from hackers?

"“There’s blood in the water,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “And this becomes a way for law enforcement to try to draw attention to encryption.”" Read more about Two iPhones or the privacy of billions: Why Apple vs. the FBI matters

"“The sanctions law doesn’t prohibit and couldn’t prohibit people from posting things in favor of or against a particular sanctioned person or entity,” Jennifer Granick, a surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, told The Hill.

Granick said the controversy over Instagram raised troubling First Amendment concerns that would not go away quickly.

“The line between supporting and encouraging actions and seeking to help is nonexistent or fuzzy at best,” Granick said about censoring online content." Read more about Instagram takes heat for removing pro-Soleimani content

"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, said people should consider potential global implications of creating a hole in a technology’s encryption. “

There's no way to build access for the good guys, such as the police, that couldn't be discovered by the bad guys, like criminals, or one nation state hacking another,” she said. “If the U.S. demands it, then every government in the world will demand the same thing.”" Read more about Apple’s Refusal to Create iPhone Backdoor Pits Public Safety Against Personal Privacy

""There is simply no way for Apple, or any other company, to provide the FBI access to encrypted communications without also providing it to authoritarian foreign governments and weakening our defenses against criminals and hackers," Jennifer Granick, an ACLU spokeswoman on cybersecurity issues, said in an emailed statement to Business Insider." Read more about Apple has reignited a privacy battle with the Trump administration by declining to unlock a mass shooter's iPhones

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020, giving residents key rights over some of their private data—data that is currently collected and commoditized without express authorization. In the discussion that follows, Dr. Jennifer King, Director of Privacy at Stanford’s CIS, explains the new law and how far it may go to protect consumer personal data.

What kinds of data are companies such as Facebook, Google, and Waze collecting? What’s the most surprising way that they are using that data? Read more about Stanford Law’s Jen King on California’s New Privacy Law