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"Law professor Danielle Citron of Boston University, who has studied stalkerware, applauded the settlement, which she said sets a mold that similar apps must fit to comply with the law. But she found one part of the agreement weak: Retina-X agreed to get a written statement from purchasers that they wouldn't use the app for illegal purposes.  Read more about Stalkerware sees all, and US laws haven't stopped its spread

"“Basically, anything that a provider has that it can decode, law enforcement is getting it,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for the ACLU’s speech, privacy, and technology project, told Recode." Read more about The police want your phone data. Here’s what they can get — and what they can’t.

""It's mostly just sound and fury, a way to give support to more legislative approaches which would be more effective," said Stanford Law School media expert Ryan Singel of the president's order to federal officials." Read more about Agencies Face Limited Options For Twitter Crackdowns

"Catherine Crump, an assistant clinical professor at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law, and director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, pointed out that while police have a right to monitor protest activity, a line must be drawn when that surveillance becomes oppressive. Read more about Police are using protests as an excuse to unleash new surveillance tech

""It sure looks like, in the face of pressure to follow the White House's preferred speech policies, Facebook chose appeasement and Twitter chose to fight," said Daphne Keller, a fellow at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society. "Why the difference? ... Maybe Facebook thinks it has more to lose by alienating Republicans.''" Read more about Trump's posts highlight differences between Twitter and Facebook

"The legal papers include an affidavit from Princeton University's privacy expert and computer scientist Jonathan Mayer, who argues that broadband providers often have more information about consumers than other types of online companies.

“A typical online service only observes how consumers interact with the service itself,” he writes. “ISPs, by comparison, have access to a wide breadth of information about what consumers do online -- with a perspective that spans websites, applications, and devices.” Read more about Maine Defends Broadband Privacy Law Against First Amendment Challenge

"Omer Tene, chief knowledge officer at the International Association of Privacy Professionals, spoke of the possibility of function creep, where the use of a technology expands beyond its original purpose.

"Function creep is a well-known phenomenon when dealing with new technologies and institutions. For example, the surveillance infrastructure set up post 9/11 lingered for many years after the crisis was over and in some respects is still with us today," he told Newsweek." Read more about Contact-Tracing Apps Could Become Permanent Once the Pandemic Is Over

"“Throwing away expertise and nimbleness … in favor of software and automation, at some point it begins to undermine the very justification of the administrative state,” says Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington Law School." Read more about States' Automated Systems Are Trapping Citizens in Bureaucratic Nightmares With Their Lives on the Line

"Daphne Keller, a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, said, “If the [executive order] had legal effect, it would certainly make it much, much harder to police disinformation online.” But she said much of the order is of dubious legality, and has produced a color-coded version showing how and why." Read more about Trump’s Social-Media Order Is a Gift to Disinformation Bots, Experts Say