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…
PRG News Roundup Jan. 29, 2020
U.K. allows Huawei to given permission to build noncritical parts of the 5G Network, despite U.S. security concerns. Avast, a free antivirus software company, is accused of selling users’ location…
PRG News Roundup Jan. 22, 2020
The UK rolled out new child privacy standards for any app, device, or online service that processes personal data. Earlier this week, the New York Times reported about a company…
PRG News Roundup Dec. 4, 2019
The NBER put out a series of reports about algorithmic studies on the share of a teachers' value-added effect on their students' student achievement. NBER researchers re-did the analysis of…
PRG News Roundup Wednesday Nov. 20
The New York City Automated Decision Systems Task Force released their final report this week. Some members of the task force took to Twitter after its release to raise concerns about some of the viewpoints underrepresented…