Privacy

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees joint hearing

TechTank

Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy

Cameron F. Kerry and John B. Morris

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

TechTank

Proposed New York bill expands scope of data privacy debate

Jack Karsten and Raj Karan Gambhir

Monday, June 24, 2019

A promotion video shows an actor wearing LLVision facial recognition smart glasses during a demonstration at the company's office in Beijing, China February 28, 2018. Picture taken February 28, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter - RC14E1C100E0

TechTank

What are the proper limits on police use of facial recognition?

Nila Bala and Caleb Watney

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Information-sharing ecosystems: How they operate and what that means for privacy legislation

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

Reports

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

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

Why protecting privacy is a losing game today—and how to change the game

Cameron F. Kerry

Thursday, July 12, 2018

Medical records clerk working in a community health center

Report

Profiles in patient privacy protection

Niam Yaraghi and Ram Gopal

Monday, March 5, 2018

A padlock is displayed at the Alert Logic booth during the 2016 Black Hat cyber-security conference in Las Vegas

Privacy

The privacy paradox II: Measuring the privacy benefits of privacy threats

Benjamin Wittes and Emma Kohse

Friday, January 13, 2017

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Report

The privacy paradox: The privacy benefits of privacy threats

Benjamin Wittes and Jodie Liu

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Blog Posts

Federal Trade Chairman Joseph Simons, (L), Federal Trade Commissioners (2nd L-R), Rohit Chopra, Noah Phillips, Rebecca Slaughter and Christine Wilson testify on the "Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission" before the U.S. Senate Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance and Data Security Subcommittee in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, U.S., November 27, 2018. REUTERS/ Leah Millis - RC1654D52A80

TechTank

Rulemaking and its discontents: Moving from principle to practice in federal privacy legislation

Cameron F. Kerry and Daniel J. Weitzner

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hold a news conference during the 'Christchurch Call Meeting' at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France May 15, 2019. Yoan Valat/Pool via REUTERS - RC155DB283B0

TechTank

The US falls behind international efforts to rein in technology platforms

Clara Hendrickson

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

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

TechTank

Brookings survey finds three-quarters of online users rarely read business terms of service

Darrell M. West

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

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Events

Algorithmic bias: New research on best practices and policies to reduce consumer harms

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

EU-US digital cooperation: A common response to tech challenges?

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

Regulating online consumer privacy and emerging technologies

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

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Multimedia

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

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage during a town hall.

Telecommunications & Internet

Facebook’s data breach and the future of consumer privacy

Nicol Turner Lee

Thursday, March 29, 2018

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