PRG News Roundup, Oct. 30, 2020
Apple has been hit with an antitrust complaint by the Interactive Advertising Bureau in France over its planned privacy settings which will limit the ability of app developers to track…
PRG News Roundup, Oct. 23, 2020
The University of Miami has recently come under scrutiny for its alleged use of facial recognition technology to target students participating in protests. The University has denied that it utilizes…
PRG News Round-Up – October 16, 2020
ILI Research Fellow Salome Viljoen wrote a piece for the Phenomenal World blog, critiquing 'propertarian' and 'dignitarian' approaches to data ownership. Google is providing data to law enforcement agencies based on keyword…
PRG News Round-Up, Oct. 9, 2020
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…
PRG News Round-up, Oct. 2, 2020
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…
PRG News Round-Up, Sept. 25, 2020
- 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 News Roundup, 9.11.20
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 News Roundup-April 29, 2020
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.…
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.