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Zoom problems as Disney princesses, a thread. When you're on mute When your screen is frozen When your roommates walk by in the background When you're stuck in the waiting

As I wrote ten years ago now, I see robots like the flying Ring as implicating privacy in three ways. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1599189 http://1.Direct surveillance. The new Ring device expands the capability

Al Gidari is a smart, good faith interlocutor. Otherwise I would respond to this rather amazing tweet... differently. But I think some response is indicated.https://twitter.com/agidari/status/1263837397776650246 I’m starting at the end

Reports are beginning to circulate about requirements to collect personal information for use in manual contact tracing. As many people have noted, manual contact tracing will require privacy trade offs.

To better understand privacy attitudes toward contact tracing apps, we surveyed subjects (total n=200) on two dates in early April. https://seclab.cs.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/contact-tracing-user-privacy.pdf (PDF) I thought some of t

Apple and Google are building a cross-device tracking platform to support some kind of unspecified digital contact tracing scheme. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/ You can read wh

Senate Commerce is holding a (first ever?) "paper" hearing on the use of digital technology to combat coronavirus. You can read my testimony and that of @staceygraydc, @Richardson_Mich, and others

Some thoughts on why #COPRA, the privacy bill from @SenatorCantwell and colleagues, is important. https://www.cantwell.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cantwell-senate-democrats-unveil-strong-online-privacy-rights [thread] 1. The bill dramatically stre