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"“As soon as there’s some complexity or some resistance by the system, the automation is unable to handle it,” says Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington whose specialties include robotics and automation. “There’s an impression that this app will help you navigate the legal system, but it will only help you to a small extent.”" Read more about Would You Trust a Lawyer Bot With Your Legal Needs?
""Since the Golden State killer case kind of exploded, we've seen there are risks to law enforcement authorities wanting to have access to that data,” said Jen King, Director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society. Read more about A Private Equity Firm Bought Ancestry, and Its Trove of DNA, for $4.7B
"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, has written about tools like Fawkes as “privacy protests,” where individuals want to thwart surveillance but not for criminal reasons. She has repeatedly seen what she called a “tired rubric" of surveillance, then countersurveillance and then anti-countersurveillance, as new monitoring technologies are introduced. Read more about This Tool Could Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition
"With any internet platform, “we should be concerned about the risk that sensitive private data will be funneled to abusive governments, including our own,” Jennifer Granick, the ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel, said in a statement Saturday. “But shutting one platform down, even if it were legally possible to do so, harms freedom of speech online and does nothing to resolve the broader problem of unjustified government surveillance.”" Read more about Donald Trump Says He’s Going to Ban TikTok. But Can He Actually Do That?
“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 — Consulting Director of Privacy for Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society — in an email to The Daily." Read more about As facial recognition draws scrutiny nationwide, Stanford research raises questions closer to home
"“We vigorously protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement,” Richard Salgado, Google’s director of law enforcement and information security, said in an email." Read more about Police Requests for Google Users’ Location Histories Face New Scrutiny
"A law is being pushed through in great haste and “with a hot needle,” said Thomas Lohninger, head of the network policy NGO ‘epicenter.works’ in an interview with EURACTIV Germany.
Lohninger does not oppose legal regulation of platform content moderation in principle, and says that online hate speech is an urgent problem and that the creation of authorised representatives is a positive development." Read more about Austria’s online hate speech law prompts question marks about ‘overblocking’
"“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, a professor of law at University of California, Davis School of Law, told TechCrunch." Read more about GEDmatch confirms data breach after users’ DNA profile data made available to police
"The rapporteurs’ message, according to Stanford researcher Daphne Keller, was that “using filters in this context is going to take down news reporting. It’s going to take down counter-speech. It’s going to take down things like the Syrian Archive.”' Read more about The coronavirus is exacerbating a crisis on social media. Human rights activists could pay the price.
"“The point of the Apple-Google exposure notification design is to protect privacy and mitigate barriers to adoption,” said Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor of computer science and public affairs at Princeton." Read more about Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data
"No one really knows just how often or widely the government has used the All Writs Act to force companies into surveillance, says Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. “As long as the government can get away with secret orders to companies that don't fight back, and judges continue to sign off on the orders the government drafts for them, we won't know.”" Read more about The FBI Is Secretly Using A $2 Billion Travel Company As A Global Surveillance Tool
"“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 United States where we don't have adequate testing and non-compliance with masking and social distancing is rampant.” — University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, who has studied public trust in contact tracing apps." Read more about Health Tech's big moment squandered
"“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 lightning rod in the escalating techno-trade clash between China and the U.S.,” said Omer Tene, VP and chief knowledge officer at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), affiliate scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and a senior fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum. Read more about Is TikTok out of time? Experts mull implications of ban
"Richard Forno, director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s cybersecurity graduate program, contends that TikTok is no more or less invasive than your Facebook or Google apps.
“I don’t think TikTok is much different from any other social media apps or services or platforms,” Forno told Digital Trends. “I think it’s been singled out because of the China connection.”" Read more about Should you delete TikTok? Only if you’re also going to delete Facebook
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, told Motherboard in an email, "it's disturbing that law enforcement can simply buy their way into obtaining vast amounts of account information, even passwords, without having to obtain any legal process."" Read more about Police Are Buying Access to Hacked Website Data
"While there’s a lot individuals can do to identify misinformation and reduce their role in spreading it, the main culprits are Twitter, Facebook and other platforms engineered to maximize speed, engagement — and corporate profits, said UW associate law professor Ryan Calo. Read more about 2020 Elections, COVID-19 Create Misinformation Opportunities
"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, Google, Facebook, Signal, and the like, though it certainly applies to them; it goes well beyond, to include everyone from Box and Dropbox, to the full range of Microsoft’s products, to OEM handset manufacturers.”" Read more about Is the U.S. Senate Trying to Steal Your Privacy While No One is Looking?
"Given that many US government leaders have led decades-long history of opposition to private use of digital encryption, cybersecurity and privacy advocates fear that the EARN IT Act commission is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Read more about Making Sense of EARN IT & LAED Bills' Implications for Crypto
"This could all lead to soaring fines, warned Omer Tene, vice president and chief knowledge officer at the International Association of Privacy Professionals. "With companies collecting data about millions of California residents, the numbers add up quickly to sums that could dwarf the FTC's $5 billion settlement with Facebook," he said." Read more about California's CCPA Gets Enforcement Teeth Today
"The bill is a “full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in all its forms,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.