Privacy

Please join the Future of Privacy Forum on Tuesday, June 2, 2020 (12 PM ET / 9 AM Pacific) for a discussion of mobile device location data and privacy. Discussion Summary  In the midst of private sector and government interest in using location data for COVID-19 contact tracing, this session…

Partnering with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Facebook recently ran a survey to help public health officials and researchers predict the spread of COVID-19 and published the results a few weeks ago, helping CMU generate deeply informative and interactive maps that show the disease’s spread. The world’s largest social network polled…

In a follow up to PI’s initial research on sharing of personal data by mental health websites, a second analysis illustrates how change is possible and yet most webpages analysed still share your data with third-parties for marketing purposes. KEY FINDINGS A few websites have made changes to limit the…

This post is part one in a series examining privacy and transparency issues in the context of public access to digital court records, building on my essay “Digital Court Records Access, Social Justice and Judicial Balancing: What Judge Coffin Can Teach Us.” In its proposed electronic court records access rules,…

Dozens of states across the US are pinning their hopes on contact tracing to control the spread of the coronavirus and enable regions to reopen without sparking major resurgences of the outbreak. Alaska, California, Massachusetts, New York, and others are collectively hiring and training tens of thousands of people to…

The NHS contact-tracing app must not be rolled out across the UK until the government has increased privacy and data protections, an influential parliamentary committee has said, as rights groups warn that the current trial is unlawful under the Data Protection Act. The joint committee on human rights said on…

PHOTOGRAPH: HENRIK SORENSEN/GETTY IMAGES SIX WEEKS AFTER the US surpassed all other countries in the number of reported Covid-19cases, some states are beginning to ease social distancing measures. As people start to slide back into close contact with one another, the nation’s top health officials are worried that the US…

The US Senate has voted to give law enforcement agencies access to web browsing data without a warrant, dramatically expanding the government’s surveillance powers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The power grab was led by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell as part of a reauthorization of the Patriot…

There is a common perception amongst privacy and business leaders that they do not need to take any action (for India’s PDPB) if they have already taken actions for compliance with EU GDPR. While the amount of work may not be as much, companies still need to take specific actions…

Broadcast date: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 Time: 8:00–9:00 a.m. PT, 11:00 a.m.–noon ET, 5:00–6:00 p.m. CET Looking back, it’s clear the EU General Data Protection Regulation was a defining moment in getting boards to pay attention to organizational privacy compliance. No doubt, for U.S. companies, the California Consumer Privacy Act…