- 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 Jake Goldenfein and Ben Green about the discourse and narrative around protecting public health vs. protecting privacy, arguing that the privacy/health trade-off is a false one. (Jacobin)
- A group of privacy academics, researchers, and professionals in Europe called DP-3T has proposed a privacy-preserving contact tracing app as an alternative to PEPP-PT. The app, unlike PEPP-PT, is decentralized. (New Statesmen) (Github)
- A number of state supreme courts have adopted Facebook Live as their new way to stream proceedings and hearings. One or two have switched to YouTube. (Florida Supreme Court) (Vermont Supreme Court) (Michigan Supreme Court)
- The Microsoft policy team send out an email yesterday supporting the idea of an “open data opportunity,” trying to change their attitude toward the data they collect and how they share it with other actors. One feature that was interesting was their idea of “spectrum of open data” — trying to differentiate between non-sensitive data, commercially sensitive data, and personal data. (Youtube Explainer)
- PRG member Genevieve Fried wrote a piece with Rashida Richardson focusing on individual privacy while evaluating the merits of contact tracing ignores important qs about whether contact tracing works. It is not published yet. She has also been doing a lot of mapping work around contact tracing technology.
- Stevie Bergman posted a 5-part podcast she made at the end of last year about AI and human rights at a Princeton conference. (Soundcloud)
- Co-opting AI: A GDPR conversation featuring our own Ira Rubinstein. (Youtube)
(compiled by student fellow Tom McBrien)