PRG News Roundup Nov. 6 2019
Chair of the Federal Election Commission Ellen L. Weintraub published an opinion piece in Washington Post in response to twitter's ban of political ads. Instead of a total ban, the Commissioner argues for…
PRG News Roundup Oct. 30, 2019
On Oct 24, Two U.S. senators have reintroduced legislation to stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s growing practice of searching or seizing travelers' electronic devices at U.S. ports of entry, including…
PRG News Round-Up Oct. 23, 2019
Google published in Nature this morning that they demonstrated quantum supremacy. Some are hailing it as an enormous technical breakthrough. NordVPN's server was compromised and an encryption key was stolen.…
PRG News Roundup Oct. 16, 2019
As noted last week, the US/UK CLOUD Act Agreement, which enables law enforcement agencies in both countries to access digital data and evidence stored within each other’s borders, was released earlier this…
PRG News Roundup: Oct. 9, 2019
The U.S. Commerce Department placed 28 Chinese business entities on a trade blacklist in connection with the mass detention and abuse of the muslim Uighur population is Xinjiang. Among the companies hit…
PRG News Roundup Oct. 2, 2019
Apply to We Robot 2020 by October 7! Andrew Yang suggested treating data as a property right and included rights such as the right to be forgotten (Forbes). Facebook has…
PRG News Roundup: Sept. 25, 2019
A recent BuzzFeed News story demonstrated the relative ease with which people can be tracked around New York City, through a cross reference of public cameras accessed via EarthCam and Instagram stories geotagged to…
PRG News Roundup: Sept. 18, 2019
Cell-site location information (CSLI), which is often used as evidence in court to connect suspects to crime, has come under more scrutiny after it was revealed that incorrect data may…