Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) investigation into Amazon Ring doorbell reveals egregiously lax privacy policies and civil rights protections. Lawmaker found Ring has no evidentiary standards for law enforcement to…
Arthur Conan Doyle's estate sued Netflix because Sherlock Holmes is portrayed in Enola Holmes as compassionate, a portrayal of Sherlock Holmes that only took place in the final 10 books which are…
Apple has been hit with an antitrust complaint by the Interactive Advertising Bureau in France over its planned privacy settings which will limit the ability of app developers to track…
The University of Miami has recently come under scrutiny for its alleged use of facial recognition technology to target students participating in protests. The University has denied that it utilizes…
ILI Research Fellow Salome Viljoen wrote a piece for the Phenomenal World blog, critiquing 'propertarian' and 'dignitarian' approaches to data ownership. Google is providing data to law enforcement agencies based on keyword…
The House Judiciary Committee released their 449-page report on competition in digital markets, largely concluding (at least on the Democrat side) that Big Tech should be broken up. Sue Halpern wrote an excellent piece in The…
In California, a federal court started hearing arguments in the case between Epic Games, the company that created Fortnite, and Apple and Google. Briefly, Epic Games argues that the companies’ relative…
- Amnesty International investigation reveals that three European tech companies based in France, Sweden and the Netherlands sold digital surveillance systems to China’s public security agencies with the risk of direct…
PRG's own Albert Fox Cahn (director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project) has co-founded a new podcast, Surveillance and the City. Check it out here.On September 22 at 11am Eastern,…
PRG 4/29 News Notes The Israeli High Court of Justice issued a ruling that the internal service’s contact tracing must be done through means set in law by the legislature.…