Zarish Baig of Squire Patton Boggs writes: It was not long ago when we were first spooked to see advertisements in our browsers directed at things we were talking about “offline” moments earlier. Could our smart phones be recording our conversations? Is it legal? Is it even possible? Well, short answer—your smartphone is always listening to you…
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Op-Ed: Coronavirus tracing apps are coming. Here’s how they could reshape surveillance as we know it
Privacy law scholar and professor Woodrow Hartzog has an Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times: Last week, the world got a preview of how Google and Apple’s contact tracing project might look and function. Some privacy and security experts have expressed cautious optimism that the effort could be a potentially useful tool to aid public health contact tracers while protecting…
Examples of COVID19 Screening, Social Distancing, and Contact Tracing Technologies and Related Legal and Practical Issues
Joseph J. Lazzarotti and Jason C. Gavejian of JacksonLewis write: As organizations work feverishly to return to business in many areas of the country, they are mobilizing to meet the myriad of challenges for providing safe environments for their workers, customers, students, patients, and visitors. Chief among these challenges are screening for COVID19 symptoms, observing…
Police Use Drones To Monitor The Homeless And Check People’s Temperatures
At what point will you read something about monitoring for COVID-19 that will just cross whatever line you have for being unacceptable surveillance? Joe Cadillic writes: All across the country, law enforcement is using the pandemic as an excuse to use Chinese-made drones to monitor the public. Which breaks EVERY promise law enforcement has ever…