Telecommunications & Internet

FILE PHOTO: Florian Heretsch and Emil Voutta of the developing team of software giant SAP work on the German government official COVID-19 tracing App at the SAP headquarters, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Walldorf, Germany May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo

How COVID-19 is shaping European tech regulation

Molly Montgomery

Thursday, June 18, 2020

The Care19 mobile app, which the governors of North Dakota and South Dakota have asked residents to download to assist in contact tracing during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen on a phone, U.S. April 24, 2020. REUTERS/Paresh Dave

The dangers of tech-driven solutions to COVID-19

Julie E. Cohen, Woodrow Hartzog, and Laura Moy

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

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Online content moderation lessons from outside the US

David Morar and Bruna Martins dos Santos

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

A billboard advertisement for Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is seen in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 2, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

How to write rules for fair digital campaigning

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Former White House counsel John Dean, a key figure in the Watergate scandal that toppled former President Richard Nixon, opens the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller to a heavily redacted page as he prepares to testify before a House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Lessons from the Mueller Report" on Capitol Hill in Washington U.S., June 10, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Podcast: Eileen Donahoe on protecting free expression online

Eileen Donahoe, Quinta Jurecic, and Alina Polyakova

Friday, June 12, 2020

Servers for data storage are seen at Advania's Thor Data Center in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland August 7, 2015. As it emerges from financial isolation, Iceland is trying to make a name for itself again, this time in the business of data centres -- warehouses that consume enormous amounts of energy to store the information of 3.2 billion internet users. Picture taken August 7, 2015. REUTERS/Sigtryggur Ari

Private lawsuits are a necessary expedient in privacy legislation

Cameron F. Kerry

The Hill Thursday, June 11, 2020

A Chinese mobile phone user uses his electronic identification card in the messaging app Weixin, or WeChat, of Tencent, on his smartphone to check in at a hotel in Guangzhou city, south China's Guangdong province, 19 July 2018.WeChat, the popular mobile messaging, social media and payments platform run by Tencent Holdings, is poised to become further entrenched in everyday life in China under a new programme that adapts it as a user's electronic social security card. China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, backed by Hong Kong-listed Tencent, has started to roll out the project in 26 cities, including the southern coastal city of Shenzhen and Xi'an in the country's northwest. The WeChat-based electronic social security cards will enable users to provide their identification, status, payment records and other relevant information to official online inquiries about benefits and insurance coverage.No Use China. No Use France.

Privacy-preserving credentials for smartphones are coming

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing a protective mask due to the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem June 7, 2020. Menahem Kahana/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Technosurveillance mission creep in Israel’s COVID-19 response

Natan Sachs and Kevin Huggard

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

NYTVIRUS -President Donald Trump with Attorney General William Barr, make remarks before signsing an executive order in the Oval Office that will punish Facebook, Google and Twitter for the way they police content online, Thursday, May 28, 2020. ( Photo by Doug Mills/Pool/Sipa USA) No Use UK. No Use Germany.

A primer on Section 230 and Trump’s executive order

Monday, June 8, 2020

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Why robustness is key to deploying AI

Jacob Steinhardt and Helen Toner

Monday, June 8, 2020