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| Sep 11, 2026 | Newsom Signs California Kids Safety Laws; Age Verification Now Applies to All Users, Not Just Teens | By Clark Johnson
Published: Sep 11 2026, 8:42 AM EDT
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| Aug 15, 2026 | California AI Bills: Transparency Advances, Enforcement Dies for Third Session | By Earl Bensen
Published: Aug 15 2026, 8:58 AM EDT
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| Aug 13, 2026 | California AI Bills Face Final Vote Today: Chatbot Safety, Copyright, US-First Commission | By Terrence Hill
Published: Aug 13 2026, 12:51 PM EDT
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| Jul 29, 2026 | FTC Sues Hims and Hers: Telehealth Giant Routed Patient Data to Meta Without Consent | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Jul 29 2026, 2:18 PM EDT
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| Jul 25, 2026 | NJ Grocery Shoppers Can Sue Retailers for Surveillance Pricing Under New Law | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Jul 25 2026, 2:58 PM EDT
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| Jul 8, 2026 | Supreme Court Ends FTC Independence, Opening US Data Privacy Enforcement Gap | By Eloise Jones
Published: Jul 08 2026, 10:36 AM EDT
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| Jul 1, 2026 | Colorado AI Law Reset: Discrimination Duty Dropped, Disclosure Takes Its Place | By Devin Culbertson
Published: Jul 01 2026, 5:42 AM EDT
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| Jun 22, 2026 | Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALI SWENSON and FATIMA HUSSEIN
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s efforts to nationalize e... |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 17Capital: $7.5 Billion Credit Fund 2 Closes As Largest NAV Loan Fundraise | 17Capital has announced the final closing of its Credit Fund 2 at approximately $7.5 billion, including affiliated mandates, marking the largest NAV loan fundraise to date and one of the five largest private credit fund closes globally in t... |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Tax scams are on the rise. Here’s what to know | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By CORA LEWIS
NEW YORK (AP) — Robocalls, texts, and phishing emails from scammers are up this tax season compared to previous years, with artificial intelligence likely increasing fraud attempts, a... |
| Mar 4, 2026 | Attorney General Jay Jones Reminds Virginians of Their Data Privacy Rights | Commonwealth of Virginia
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| Feb 6, 2026 | Former Federal Judge: ICE’s Home Raiding Policy Violates A Basic Constitutional Right | This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents continued to use aggressive and sometimes violent methods to make arrests ... |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Menotracker wants to fix menopause symptom tracking — without selling user data | Menotracker, the AI-powered menopause-tracking app, has launched in partnership with the privacy technology company ConsentKeys consentkeys.com to become the first and only women’s health application that will never store users’ personal da... |
| Dec 12, 2025 | What to know about Trump’s draft proposal to curtail state AI regulations | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JESSE BEDAYN
President Donald Trump is considering pressuring states to stop regulating artificial intelligence in a draft executive order obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, as some in C... |
| Dec 9, 2025 | How ICE’s Plan To Monitor Social Media Threatens Not Just Privacy, But Civic Participation | When most people think about immigration enforcement, they picture border crossings and airport checkpoints. But the new front line may be your social media feed.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has published a request for informat... |
| Nov 16, 2025 | How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Nicole M. Bennett
When most people think about immigration enforcement, they picture border crossings and airport checkpoints. But the new front line may be your social media feed.
U.S. Immigrat... |
| Sep 25, 2025 | YouTube começa a restringir contas após verificação de idade | Usuários compartilham pop-up que notifica a verificação da idade (ilustração: Vitor Pádua/Tecnoblog)
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| Sep 11, 2025 | How Palantir Is Mapping Everyone’s Data For The Government | When the U.S. government signs contracts with private technology companies, the fine print rarely reaches the public. Palantir Technologies, however, has attracted more and more attention over the past decade because of the size and scope o... |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Trump wants states to feed voter info into powerful citizenship data program | The changes to SAVE, rolled out over just a few months and with little public debate, are “tinkering with sort of the bones of democracy,” said John Davisson, senior counsel and director of litigation at the Electronic Privacy Information C... |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Privacy and civil rights groups urge US colleges to end campus surveillance to protect protesters | “Without immediate action, surveillance tools and the data they amass will be used to supercharge the virulent attacks on campus communities,” says the letter, coordinated by the group Fight for the Future. It was signed by 32 groups, inclu... |
| Jun 18, 2025 | The Evolving Landscape of E-Commerce and Social Media: A Tale of Two Giants | In the world of e-commerce and social media, change is the only constant. Amazon and Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) are two titans navigating this turbulent sea. Each is adapting to shifting tides, facing challenges, and seizing opportuni... |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Navigating the Privacy Minefield of Meta's AI App | Meta's new AI app has burst onto the scene, but it comes with a dark cloud of privacy concerns. Launched in April 2025, this standalone app aims to compete with giants like OpenAI's ChatGPT. However, it has quickly become a hotbed for priva... |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Musk’s X tops UK news as Grok says it’s ‘likely’ most viewed – while Meta and TikTok falter | Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, has become the UK’s most downloaded news app, marking a surprise comeback for a platform many had dismissed as fading.
Despite years of falling ad revenue, user churn, and accusations of toxicity re... |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Inside the privacy risks of Meta’s new AI app | Meta’s push into consumer-facing AI has triggered a wave of concern among privacy experts and regulators, as its new chatbot app quietly exposes sensitive user data through a public-facing feed – an issue that has surfaced in multiple juris... |
| May 2, 2025 | How The Government Is Quietly Repurposing Everyone’s Data For Surveillance | A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board reported an unusual spike in potentially sensitive data flowing out of the agency’s network in early March 2025 when staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency, which goes by ... |
| Apr 27, 2025 | Opinion: Nicole M. Bennett: How the government is quietly repurposing everyone’s data for surveillance | DOGE and the private sector
Central to this transformation is DOGE, which is tasked via an executive order to “promote inter-operability between agency networks and systems, ensure data integrity, and facilitate responsible data collection ... |
| Apr 12, 2025 | Tips for travellers entering the US now: Check your visa, turn off your phone | At airports and land borders across the country, tourists and other visitors coming to the United States have reported being caught up in the Trump administration’s campaign of “enhanced vetting.” Even legal immigrants, like green card hold... |
| Jan 24, 2025 | The Fragile Fortress of Privacy: Navigating the Crossroads of AI and Encryption | In the digital age, privacy is a fortress under siege. Recent revelations about vulnerabilities in popular communication platforms and the looming presence of artificial intelligence (AI) threaten to erode the walls of this fortress. As we ... |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Станет ли ИИ катастрофой для сквозного шифрования? | Недавно я обнаружил потрясающую новую статью How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI, написанную группой исследователей из Нью-Йоркского и Корнеллского университетов. Я очень рад прочтению этой статьи, потому что, хоть не согласен с... |
| Nov 28, 2024 | Navigating the Digital Health Landscape: The Imperative for Data Protection | In the age of technology, our bodies have become data points. Wearable devices track our heart rates, fitness apps monitor our steps, and health records are stored in the cloud. This digital transformation offers convenience but raises sign... |
| Nov 27, 2024 | Health | Are you tracking your health with a device? Here’s what could happen with the data | “I’ve been studying the intersections of emerging technologies, data-driven technologies, AI and human rights and social justice for the past 15 years, and since the pandemic I’ve noticed the industry has become hyper-focused on our bodies,... |
| Dec 6, 2023 | CDT Applauds House Judiciary Vote on Landmark FISA 702 Surveillance Reform Bill | (WASHINGTON) — The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) welcomes today’s broad bipartisan 35-2 vote by the House Judiciary Committee to advance the Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act (H.R. 6570). This bill would clo... |
| Oct 6, 2023 | Proton’s CEO On Why They Continue To Take Bitcoin And The Future Of Encryption | ( Boston, MA,05/30/14) Andy Yen, cofounder of ProtonMail. (see Jordan Graham story) (Staff photo ... [+] by Stuart Cahill) (Photo by Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)MediaNews Group via Getty Images |
| Jan 27, 2023 | Nonstate armed actors in 2023: Persistence amid geopolitical shuffles | Four factors will critically shape the landscape of nonstate armed actors and illicit economies in 2023 and beyond:
the new geopolitics;
persisting structural weaknesses of government responses to nonstate armed actors, amplified by the las... |
| Nov 6, 2022 | Algorithms quietly run the city of DC—and maybe your hometown | Enlarge
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| Oct 7, 2022 | The AI Bill of Rights Makes Uneven Progress on Algorithmic Protections | The White House has released the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights—which is likely the signature document reflecting the Biden administration’s approach to algorithmic regulation. Paired with a series of agency actions, the Biden administr... |
| Aug 28, 2022 | FBI Watchlist 2022: How Are People Added, Name Inclusion Standards, and Other New Details | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 28 August 2022, 10:08 am
The FBI watchlist has been among the most mysterious database of the U.S. government.
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A woman walks past an FBI P... |
| Aug 8, 2022 | AI regulation: A state-by-state roundup of AI bills | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
Wondering where AI regulation stands in your state? Today, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) released Th... |
| Jul 21, 2022 | The end of Roe could finally convince Americans to care more about privacy | Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) uses a period-tracking app. So do many of her friends and constituents, who messaged her about those apps after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaked. Major privacy concerns with period tracking... |
| Feb 23, 2022 | Identity verification service ID.me has a lucrative contract with the VA. Veterans and their families say it’s locked them out of disability payments and emergency assistance. | ID.me is an identity verification service that has contracts with many federal agencies, including the IRS.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been using ID.me since 2019 as part of a $32 million contract.
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| Feb 22, 2022 | Identity verification service ID.me has a lucrative contract with the VA. Veterans and their families say it’s locked them out of disability payments and emergency assistance. | Document from ID.me and with steps showing how to make a VA account that’s verified with ID.me. Veterans Affairs ID.me is an identity verification service that has contracts with many federal agencies, including the IRS. The Department of V... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Break into one of the 500,000 open cybersecurity jobs in the US | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In 2021, T-Mobile suffered a data breach that led... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Break into one of the 500,000 open cybersecurity jobs in the US | The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now!
In 2021, T-Mobile suffered a data breach that led a hacker to access the personal details of over 50 million people. In 20... |
| Jul 14, 2021 | Retailers face backlash for unchecked facial recognition use leading to false arrests | The news: A coalition of civil rights organizations is demanding that retailers stop using facial recognition because the technology leads to abuses and wrongful arrests, per Bloomberg. More than 35 organizations joined the campaign and sin... |
| Jul 11, 2021 | Future AI toys could be smarter than parents, but a lot less protective | Mattel’s Hello Barbie and Genesis Toys’ My Friend Cayla dolls are cautionary examples of AI toys threatening privacy.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) is a U.S. law protecting children 13 years and younger from having da... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Dangers Posed by Evidentiary Software—and What to Do About It | It's well known the code is buggy; that's why software updates for anything from apps to operating systems are now the norm. But if the public understands this, the courts have not followed suit.
In the UK, there was a major long-running sc... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants to create a new agency to deal with data privacy | Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is introducing a revamped version of her Data Protection Act, which would create a new government agency in charge of regulating and enforcing federal privacy laws — the ones we have now as well as any we migh... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | Proctorio Is Using Racist Algorithms to Detect Faces | Students of color have long complained that the facial detection algorithms Proctorio and other exam surveillance companies use fail to recognize their faces, making it difficult if not impossible to take high-stakes tests.
Now, a software ... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | How the National Cyber Director Position Is Going to Work: Frequently Asked Questions | The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2021 created the Office of the National Cyber Director within the Executive Office of the President. The office will be headed by the United States’s first national cyber director (NC... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | You’ve been invited to Clubhouse. Your privacy hasn’t. | Did you get an invitation to join Clubhouse, the invite-only, audio-based app that seemingly everyone is talking about? Before you decide to join the cool kids club, you might want to consider who will see you there, even if you take every ... |
| Jan 30, 2021 | What algorithm auditing startups need to succeed | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
To provide clarity and avert potential harms, alg... |
| Jan 30, 2021 | What algorithm auditing startups need to succeed | To provide clarity and avert potential harms, algorithms that impact human lives would ideally be reviewed by an independent body before they’re deployed, just as environmental impact reports must be approved before a construction project c... |
| Jan 15, 2021 | How to Make the National Cyber Director Position Work | Over the new year, Congress overrode President Trump’s veto to enact into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal 2021—an annual piece of legislation that lays out the budget, expenditures and policies of the Pentagon f... |
| Oct 23, 2020 | How ethical hackers are trying to protect the 2020 U.S. elections | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
After the surprising outcome of the 2016 U.S. pre... |
| Oct 23, 2020 | How ethical hackers are trying to protect the 2020 U.S. elections | After the surprising outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, many have feared that the country’s voting system is vulnerable to external attacks. In response, loosely affiliated groups of “ethical hackers” have been pooling their re... |
| Oct 20, 2020 | How Long Can President Trump Keep His Tax Returns From Prosecutors? | Late last month, the New York Times published the first in a series of exposés on President Trump’s compliance (or non-compliance) with his federal income tax obligations. While readers of the Times articles may or may not be troubled by th... |
| Oct 15, 2020 | Privacy Issues at the Heart of North Carolina’s Coronavirus Response | As Sen. Thom Tillis recuperates from his bout with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, North Carolina is continuing its phased reopening with eased restrictions on bars, movie theaters and amusement parks, and... |
| Oct 14, 2020 | As Zoom classes take over during the pandemic, edtech companies provide a lifeline, but only for schools and parents willing to surrender their students' privacy | The rapid shift to virtual learning this spring has blurred the line between students' homes and schools, immediately sparking privacy scandals like "Zoom bombing."
But the new school year has brought new and unexpected side effec... |
| Sep 24, 2020 | The Need For A Robust Critical Community In Content Policy | Over this series of policy posts, I?m exploring the evolution of internet regulation from my perspective as an advocate for constructive reform. It is my goal in these posts to unpack the movement towards regulatory change and to offer some... |
| Sep 24, 2020 | The Need For A Robust Critical Community In Content Policy | Over this series of policy posts, I’m exploring the evolution of internet regulation from my perspective as an advocate for constructive reform. It is my goal in these posts to unpack the movement towards regulatory change and to offer some... |
| Sep 14, 2020 | Setting the Record Straight After Moalin | Rachael Hanna’s summary of the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in United States v. Moalin is both comprehensive and excellent, but there is one point that I wanted to highlight. As explained in the opinion summar... |
| Jul 29, 2020 | What Does Schrems II Mean for the U.K.? | Maximillian Schrems is two-for-two. Or, as Austrian complainant Schrems puts it, “The Court clarified for a second time now that there is a clash between EU privacy law and US surveillance law.”
Thanks to a different legal challenge from Sc... |
| Jul 1, 2020 | Increasing Transparency at the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence | In 2018, Congress established the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI)—a temporary, independent body tasked with reviewing the national security implications of artificial intelligence (AI). But two years later, t... |
| Jun 30, 2020 | Indiana Supreme Court Says Compelled Decryption Of Smartphones Violates The Fifth Amendment | Two years ago, the Indiana state Appeals Court ruled residents could not be compelled to unlock devices by law enforcement — not at the drop of a warrant. To compel the production of a password, law enforcement needs to have a certain amoun... |
| Jun 30, 2020 | Indiana Supreme Court Says Compelled Decryption Of Smartphones Violates The Fifth Amendment | Two years ago, the Indiana state Appeals Court ruled residents could not be compelled to unlock devices by law enforcement -- not at the drop of a warrant. To compel the production of a password, law enforcement needs to have a certain amou... |
| May 29, 2020 | Can You Protect Privacy If There's No Real Enforcement Mechanism? | Privacy laws can have a lot of moving pieces from notices and disclosures, opt-in and opt-out consent requirements to privacy defaults and user controls. Over the past few years, there has been significant progress on these issues because p... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | Drones used in effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 | All over the world, public health and safety officials are employing drones to monitor public spaces and enforce social distancing rules, to help slow the spread of coronavirus
CBS News National Correspondent Errol Barnett recorded onlooker... |
| Mar 31, 2020 | FOIA'ed DOJ Report Points Out The Downsides Of Relying On 'Predictive Policing' To Fight Crime | The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has obtained a DOJ report on predictive policing via a FOIA lawsuit. The document dates back to 2014 but it shows the DOJ had concerns about the negative side effects of predicting where crim... |
| Mar 24, 2020 | Security, Privacy and the Coronavirus: Lessons From 9/11 | A few days after Sept. 11, 2001, I entered the Mott House on Maryland Avenue, not far from the Senate. The national D.C. office of the ACLU was hosting a somber meeting of privacy and civil liberties experts from across the political spectr... |
| Mar 16, 2020 | Working From Home? Zoom Tells Your Boss If You're Not Paying Attention | During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans will be forced to work, play, and learn from home for the foreseeable future. Such a massive shift will lean not only on shaky and expensive U.S. broadband networks, but popular teleconfer... |
| Mar 13, 2020 | AI Weekly: Coronavirus spurs adoption of AI-powered candidate recruitment and screening tools | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As COVID-19 continues to spread — as of the time ... |
| Mar 13, 2020 | AI Weekly: Coronavirus spurs adoption of AI-powered candidate recruitment and screening tools | As COVID-19 continues to spread — as of the time of writing (March 12), there were over 139,600 confirmed cases and over 5,100 deaths — companies are increasingly adopting alternatives to in-person job interviews and talent recruitment. Rec... |
| Feb 28, 2020 | If We Build It (They Will Break In) | Attorney General William Barr has staked his ground in the long-running debate over law enforcement access to encrypted communications. Last fall, Barr decried end-to-end encryption as “enabling dangerous criminals to cloak their communicat... |
| Feb 27, 2020 | Airbnb Has Secret ‘Trustworthy Scores’ and This Privacy Group Is Demanding to See Them | Algorithms now determine everything. Facebook’s news and advertising algorithm determines your daily reality, bombarding you with skewed ads and sketchy news that only reinforces your worldview. Flawed test score algorithms determine your c... |
| Feb 20, 2020 | Job hunters face a new hurdle: Impressing AI | If you're on the hunt for a new job, there's a new twist to the hiring process that's increasingly common: Getting judged by artificial intelligence.
Major businesses like Unilever and Ikea are turning to AI programs to sniff out suitable a... |
| Jan 23, 2020 | Campaign Privacy Statements Open Voters to Data Sharing | This story is part of CoinDesk’s 2020 election series exploring questions of information integrity, the rights of digital citizens, the power of centralized platforms, and the future of money.
The 2020 presidential campaign is largely focus... |
| Nov 7, 2019 | India’s Role in Global Cyber Policy Formulation | The past year has seen vigorous activity on the domestic cyber policy front in India. On key issues—including intermediary liability, data localization and e-commerce—the government has rolled out a patchwork of regulatory policies, resulti... |
| Nov 5, 2019 | A Thoughtful Response to Going Dark and the Child Pornography Issue | Last month the Department of Justice held a Lawful Access Summit focusing on the role of encryption in child pornography and exploitation. There’s no question that the internet makes it much easier to obtain child pornography than it once w... |
| Oct 21, 2019 | Motive doesn't matter: The three types of insider threats | In information security, outside threats can get the lion's share of attention. Insider threats to data security, though, can be more dangerous and harder to detect because they are strengthened by enhanced knowledge and/or access.
Not only... |
| Jul 27, 2019 | Privacy Group EPIC Suing The FTC For $5 Billion Facebook Settlement | Diane Samson, Tech Times 27 July 2019, 09:07 pm
Electronic Privacy Information Center is not happy with the Federal Trade Commission's decision to give Facebook a $5 billion fine for years of privacy violations.
The consumer privacy group b... |
| Jul 12, 2019 | In Response To EPIC Lawsuit, Department Of Homeland Security Suspends Journalist Database Plans | WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 28: Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan speaks during a news ... [+] conference at the Immigration and Customs Headquarters, on June 28, 2019 in Washington, DC. McAleenan spoke about the supplemental ... |
| Mar 13, 2019 | FOIA Documents Detail DHS/CBP's Rules-Free Rollout Of Biometric Scanning Program | The push is on to implement biometric screening at major US airports. The DHS has been pushing this for awhile, telling concerned travelers all they need to do to opt out is not travel. The pilot programs don’t seem to have produced anythin... |
| Mar 7, 2019 | Facebook to link Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg presented a new "vision" for how the social networking giant will protect members' privacy
Cornerstones of this approach will be to better encrypt data and give users more control over who can contact ... |
| Feb 24, 2019 | We’re giving away more personal data than ever, despite growing risks | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We’re currently facing a privacy paradox. We, the... |
| Feb 24, 2019 | We’re giving away more personal data than ever, despite growing risks | We’re currently facing a privacy paradox. We, the public, are becoming increasingly aware of the risks of sharing our data online, but we continue to share it, regardless. In fact, evidence suggests that, despite the Cambridge Analytica sca... |
| Feb 6, 2019 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Black Swans, Black Ops, BlackCube and Red Herrings | In this episode, I interview Chris Bing and Joel Schectman about their remarkable stories covering the actions of what amount to U.S. cyber-mercenary hackers. We spare a moment of sympathy for one of those hackers, Lori Stroud, who managed ... |
| Feb 4, 2019 | Early Facebook investor says social network is "terrible for America" | One of Facebook's early investors is urging users to wake up to what he calls the dark side of social media. Longtime tech investor Roger McNamee, who advised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in the early years of the company, now argues th... |
| Jan 11, 2019 | Will This New Congress be the One to Pass Data Privacy Legislation? | A Congress that begins with a government shutdown carrying over and a raft of subpoenas to the executive branch issued by incoming House committee chairs promises to be at least as polarized and partisan as its predecessor. Even so, legisla... |
| Jan 9, 2019 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: 'Pay no Attention to the Guns, the Flashbang, and the Handcuffs. You’re Free to Go at Any Time.' | Nate Jones, David Kris and I kick off 2019 with a roundup of the month of news since we took our Christmas break. First, we break down the utterly predictable but undismissable Silicon Valley claim that the administration’s new export contr... |
| Jan 8, 2019 | The President Is Still Subject to Generally Applicable Criminal Laws: A Response to Barr and Goldsmith | In an op-ed in the New York Times and a post on Lawfare, we criticized President Trump’s nominee to be the next attorney general, William Barr, for a memo he sent to Trump administration officials last June arguing that Special Counsel Robe... |
| Dec 26, 2018 | Exceptional Access: The Devil is in the Details | Lawfare has run a series of posts concerning exceptional access. Josh Benaloh presents an excellent discussion of the irresponsibility of so-called “responsible encryption,” and Cindy Cohn persuasively argues that the computer security comm... |
| Nov 27, 2018 | Consumer groups want EU to go after Google for tracking users with their phones | A report a few weeks ago revealed what some Google users already knew: That disabling Location History doesn’t mean Google will not record your location with the help of certain mobile apps, especially the ones that need your location to wo... |
| Oct 29, 2018 | Privacy group calls on US government to adopt universal AI guidelines to protect safety, security and civil liberties | After months of work, a set of guidelines designed to protect humanity from a range of threats posed by artificial intelligence have been proposed.
Now, a privacy group wants the U.S. government to adopt them too.
The set of 12 universal gu... |
| Oct 18, 2018 | Four Months Later, How Are Courts Interpreting Carpenter? | Last June in a 5-4 ruling in Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court extended Fourth Amendment protections to an individual’s cell phone location data for the first time. Many commentators described Carpenter as a “landmark” decision,... |
| Oct 4, 2018 | Despite objection, Congress passes bill that lets U.S. authorities shoot down private drones | U.S. authorities will soon have the authority to shoot down private drones if they are considered a threat — a move decried by civil liberties and rights groups.
The Senate passed the FAA Reauthorization Act on Wednesday, months after an ea... |
| Sep 26, 2018 | In Senate hearing, tech giants push lawmakers for federal privacy rules | Another day, another hearing of tech giants in Congress.
Wednesday’s hearing at the Senate Commerce Committee with Apple, Amazon, Google and Twitter, alongside AT&T and Charter, marked the latest in a string of hearings in the past few ... |
| Aug 28, 2018 | A Proposed Agenda for a New PCLOB | President Trump recently nominated Travis LeBlanc and Aditya Bamzai as members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), placing a full set of five nominees before the Senate and creating the possibility that the inquorate... |
| Aug 20, 2018 | Google’s creepy location-tracking policy just landed the company a brand-new lawsuit | Right on the heels of an Associated Press investigation confirming that Google creepily tracks user movements and locations even after they’ve tried to forbid that tracking, a San Diego man is now telling the tech giant “I’ll see you in cou... |
| Jun 27, 2018 | Does Carpenter Revolutionize the Law of Subpoenas? | The Supreme Court’s decision in Carpenter v. United States has lots of new directions in it. One direction that some commentators have focused on is its impact on the law of subpoenas. For example, Marty Lederman writes today that the subpo... |
