Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
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.…
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…
On April 15, 2020, the PRG student fellows led a discussion about privacy and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Please see the slides here.
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…
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…
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…