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""No contact tracing app can be fully effective until there is widespread, free, and quick testing and equitable access to health care,” said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union. “These systems also can’t be effective if people don’t trust them. People will only trust these systems if they protect privacy, remain voluntary, and store data on an individual's device, not a centralized repository.” Read more about What Is Contact Tracing and How Does It Work?

"“Either you have a system unlikely to help people navigate their world, to leave their house and feel safe, or you have privacy trade-offs," said University of Washington Law School professor Ryan Calo." Read more about Apple, Google release coronavirus-tracing software — but will it help?

"“I think it’s important to consider that the inertia of these kinds of things, that the decisions we make now, will impact privacy for years to come,” Northeastern University professor of computer science and law Woodrow Hartzog said last week in a conversation about privacy and COVID-19."

"One of the experts who testified at the hearing is University of Washington School of Law professor and UW Tech Policy Lab co-director Ryan Calo. Along with other witnesses, he testified that aggregated data can and should inform health policy where appropriate. Read more about How Congress is shaping data privacy laws during the pandemic

"“Barr’s and Wray’s speeches make it clear that, even if the government has the capability to get into locked phones, it’s far from giving up on its quest for a law requiring Apple to build an access mechanism for law enforcement,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society." Read more about US officials say they've cracked Pensacola shooter’s iPhones, blast Apple

"“Law enforcement use of this ‘agent’ keylogger feature can be legal, so long as the warrant the government gets to search and seize the device spells out that the investigators are permitted to use it,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. “In general, I don't think that magistrate judges authorizing search warrants would expect that the government plans to implant malware on a device it has seized.”" Read more about iPhone spyware lets police log suspects' passcodes when cracking doesn't work

""I think Americans do have to be ... very careful that we're not building surveillance that isn't going to work, or that we're stuck with surveillance infrastructures that are going to haunt us after the crisis is over." — Jennifer Granick, ACLU surveillance and cybersecurity counsel." Read more about What you need to know about coronavirus on Friday, May 15

"Jennifer King, who serves as Director of Consumer Privacy for Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, noted that such terms of service often are “very non-transparent” and could make it difficult for users to make an informed choice about whether to opt in to contact tracing. Read more about Do Contact Tracing Apps Pit Privacy Against The Public Good?

"“This draft legislation addresses two of my biggest privacy concerns about the use of technology and information to respond to COVID-19. As the Act makes clear, the emergency health data of Americans should only be used to fight the pandemic and should never be used to discriminate or deny opportunity,” said Ryan Calo, Lane Powell & D. Wayne Gittinger Endowed Professor at University of Washington School of Law." Read more about Protecting Civil Liberties During COVID-19: Warner, Blumental Eshoo Schakowsky & DelBene Introduce the Public Health Privacy Act