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This cuffing season, it’s time to consider the privacy of dating apps

Caitlin Chin and Mishaela Robison

Friday, November 20, 2020

FILE PHOTO: An election worker places mail-in ballots into a voting box at a drive-through drop off location at the Registrar of Voters for San Diego County in San Diego, California, U.S., October 19, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

TechTank

By passing Proposition 24, California voters up the ante on federal privacy law

Cameron F. Kerry and Caitlin Chin

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris address reporters about efforts to confront the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic after meeting with members of the "Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board" in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

TechTank

What divided control of Congress would mean for President-elect Biden

Darrell M. West

Monday, November 9, 2020

A laboratory worker works on fast PCR testing samples in Confidence laboratory, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Vienna, Austria October 30, 2020. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

TechTank

To mitigate the costs of future pandemics, establish a common data space

Stephanie Chin and Caitlin Chin

Monday, November 2, 2020

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The Court of Justice of the European Union in Schrems II: The impact of GDPR on data flows and national security

Joshua P. Meltzer

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

To combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, covid-19, the Trackvirus application has been developed in Israel to consult in real time the routes taken by infected people. Monday April 13, 2020.Pour lutter contre la propagation de la pandemie du coronavirus, covid-19, l'application Trackvirus a ete develope en israel pour consulter en temps reel les itineraires emprunte par les personnes infectees. Lundi 13 Avril 2020.NO USE FRANCE

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Digital contact tracing and the coronavirus: Israeli and comparative perspectives

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler and Rachel Aridor Hershkowitz

August 2020

Privacy

Bridging the gaps: A path forward to federal privacy legislation

Cameron F. Kerry, John B. Morris, Jr., Caitlin Chin, and Nicol Turner Lee

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

People look at data on their mobiles as background with internet wire cables on switch hub is projected in this picture illustration taken May 30, 2018. Picture taken May 30, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration - RC138602D200

Privacy

Privacy policy and competition

Alex Marthews and Catherine Tucker

Thursday, December 5, 2019

A woman looks at her Apple iPhone X at an Apple store in New York, U.S., November 3, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RC1AE432FB10

Privacy

Breaking down proposals for privacy legislation: How do they regulate?

Cameron F. Kerry

Friday, March 8, 2019

Blog Posts

The U.S. Capitol building is seen on Tuesday morning after the federal government was shutdown when the House and Senate failed to pass a budget in Washington October 1, 2013. The lawmakers who shut down the U.S. government on Tuesday have the best view of the result from their perch in the U.S. Capitol: a two-mile stretch of museums, monuments and federal buildings along the National Mall that were closed for business. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E9A11QZF01

TechTank

How the 2020 elections will shape the federal privacy debate

Cameron F. Kerry and Caitlin Chin

Monday, October 26, 2020

The TikTok application is seen on an iPhone 11 Pro max in this photo illustration in Warsaw, Poland on September 29, 2020. The TikTok app will be banned from US app stores from Sunday unless president Donald Trump approves a last-minute deal between US tech firm Oracle and TikTok owner ByteDance. US authorities say the Chinese video sharing app threaten national security and could pass on user data to China. (Photo by Jaap Arriens / Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

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What the debate over TikTok means for the future of social media

Mishaela Robison and Jack Karsten

Monday, October 12, 2020

General view of the U.S. head office of TikTok in Culver City, California, U.S., September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake

TechTank

TechTank Podcast Episode 4: Should Trump ban TikTok and WeChat?

Darrell M. West, Nicol Turner Lee, and Tom Wheeler

Thursday, September 17, 2020

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John B. Morris, Jr.

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

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Using differential privacy to harness big data and preserve privacy

Chuck Kapelke

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

An illustration picture shows a network cable next to a pack of smartphones in Berlin, June 7, 2013. The debate over whether the U.S. government is violating citizens' privacy rights while trying to protect them from terrorism escalated dramatically on Thursday amid reports that authorities have collected data on millions of phone users and tapped into servers at nine internet companies. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY BUSINESS) - BM2E967131Y01

Order from Chaos

Comparing American and European perspectives on tech and privacy

Amalia Coyle and Ted Piccone

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Attendees use their laptops at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco.

Privacy

America’s data privacy problem

Cameron F. Kerry and Fred Dews

Friday, July 27, 2018

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What to expect on tech policy in the next presidential administration

Advancing the transatlantic dialogue in the aftermath of Schrems II

Webinar: What will it take to bridge gaps in federal privacy legislation?

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation