PRG News Roundup 4.22.20
France urged Google and Apple to ease their privacy protections because the current protocols wouldn’t permit the French contact tracing plan. (The Guardian)ILI Fellow Salome Viljoen wrote an op-ed with…
Privacy and COVID-19
On April 15, 2020, the PRG student fellows led a discussion about privacy and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Please see the slides here.
PRG News Roundup April 10, 2020
Zoom continues to face backlash over its privacy and security practices. In particular, concerns have been raised regarding the lack of end-to-end encryption, the prevalence of "zoombombing" (when uninvited participants join…
PRG News Roundup 4/1/2020
The CDC is collecting data on citizens' locations and movements from cell phones, social media, and airline passenger manifests -- and doing so without judicial oversight. (Daily Beast; Surveillance Technology…
PRG News Roundup 3.25.20
The Singaporean government introduced a contact-tracing app named TraceTogether that mainly uses Bluetooth to keep a 21-day log of who users have been in close contact with. Singapore placed many…
PRG News Roundup March 4, 2020
In China, " new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control." (N.Y. Times) The…
PRG News Round-up Feb. 26, 2020
Two school districts in South Carolina have replaced metal detectors with millimeter wave body scanners. This yet another privacy concern in the school context, after universities have begun attempting to track students using Bluetooth…
PRG News Round-Up Feb. 3, 2020
The European Commission published its data strategy. The proposal emphasizes the development of rules for access and re-use of industrial and commercial data, as well as building a single data market…
PRG News Round-Up — Feb. 12, 2020
The Department of Justice unsealed indictments against four officers of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), charging them with carrying out the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax. The indictments allege that…
PRG News Round-Up — Feb. 5, 2020
Facebook and Twitter announced new policies for how they plan to handle deepfake videos and falsified content. In an interview with CBS, the CEO of controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI, argued…