Privacy

A man wearing a protective face mask walks under surveillance cameras as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Shanghai, China March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

TechTank

TechTank Podcast Episode 14: How companies surveil workers and ways employees can protect themselves

Darrell M. West

Monday, March 8, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission building is seen in Washington

TechTank

Five reforms the FTC can undertake now to strengthen the agency

Jessica Rich

Monday, March 1, 2021

TechTank

Do not expect too much from the Facebook antitrust complaints

Mark MacCarthy

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Contact tracing app TraceTogether, released by the Singapore government to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is seen on a mobile phone, in Singapore March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su

TechTank

How our outdated privacy laws doomed contact-tracing apps

Jessica Rich

Thursday, January 28, 2021

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Essay

Student debt cancellation should consider wealth, not income

Andre M. Perry and Carl Romer

Thursday, February 25, 2021

A staff member sets up EU flags ahead of a European Union leaders summit after European Parliament elections to discuss who should run the EU executive for the next five years, in Brussels, Belgium May 28, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka Van de Wouw - RC19BA86C980

Privacy

The oracle at Luxembourg: The EU Court of Justice judges the world on surveillance and privacy

Cameron F. Kerry

Monday, January 11, 2021

Privacy

Framing a privacy right: Legislative findings for federal privacy legislation

Cameron F. Kerry and John B. Morris, Jr.

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Binary code superimposed on the European Union flag

Report

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

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Politics and International Relations

Digital contact tracing and the coronavirus: Israeli and comparative perspectives

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler and Rachel Aridor Hershkowitz

August 2020

Blog Posts

TechTank

Platform data access is a lynchpin of the EU’s Digital Services Act

Alex Engler

Friday, January 15, 2021

A general view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on December 1, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. As Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess for the lame duck session, the 7-day average for confirmed COVID-19 cases in America is holding above 150,000. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

TechTank

After 20 years of debate, it’s time for Congress to finally pass a baseline privacy law

Jessica Rich

Thursday, January 14, 2021

Illustration of Happen and Tinder online dating app. During the corona crisis, many people are dating online, through dating app. The Hague, Netherlands on November 12, 2020. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use Netherlands. No Use Germany.

TechTank

TechTank Podcast Episode 11: Ways to protect your privacy and security with online dating apps

Darrell M. West, Caitlin Chin, and Mishaela Robison

Monday, January 11, 2021

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Experts

Mark MacCarthy

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

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John B. Morris, Jr.

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

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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

TechStream

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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Privacy

TechTank Podcast Episode 14: How companies surveil workers and ways employees can protect themselves

Five reforms the FTC can undertake now to strengthen the agency

Do not expect too much from the Facebook antitrust complaints

How our outdated privacy laws doomed contact-tracing apps

Reports

Student debt cancellation should consider wealth, not income

The oracle at Luxembourg: The EU Court of Justice judges the world on surveillance and privacy

Framing a privacy right: Legislative findings for federal privacy legislation

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

Digital contact tracing and the coronavirus: Israeli and comparative perspectives

Blog Posts

Platform data access is a lynchpin of the EU’s Digital Services Act

After 20 years of debate, it’s time for Congress to finally pass a baseline privacy law

TechTank Podcast Episode 11: Ways to protect your privacy and security with online dating apps

Events

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?

Experts

Mark MacCarthy

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

John B. Morris, Jr.

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation

Multimedia

Using differential privacy to harness big data and preserve privacy

Comparing American and European perspectives on tech and privacy

America’s data privacy problem

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