Has 2021 been better or worse for you than 2020? I am trying to decide for myself, but I am glad that I will be with family, however small a group we are this year because our family is scattered across the country and across an ocean. When we give thanks today, I will be…
Category: Announcements
New resources on privacy harms
Of note: Professors Daniel Solove and Danielle Citron have revised their important article, Privacy Harms, forthcoming 102 B.U. Law Review __ (2022). You can download the latest draft for free on SSRN. “Among other things,” Dan writes, “we rethought the typology to add top-level categories and subcategories.” Other papers on harms that the two have co-authored: Standing…
EFF Activists To Lead Protest Demanding Apple Cancel iPhone Scanning Program and Keep Its Privacy Promises To Customers
Demonstrations Planned at Apple Stores in San Francisco, Boston, Portland, and Atlanta San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) activists will lead a protest on Monday, September 13, at 6 pm PT, demanding Apple drop its planned iPhone surveillance software program, which will endanger the privacy and security of its customers and open a backdoor to increased surveillance…
ACLU Advocate Reining in Government Use of Face Surveillance, Champion of Privacy Rights Research, and Data Security Trainer Protecting Black Communities Named Recipients of EFF’s Pioneer Award
An EFF press release: San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce that Kade Crockford, Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts, Pam Dixon, executive director and founder of World Privacy Forum, and Matt Mitchell, founder of CryptoHarlem, are recipients of the 2021 Pioneer Award for their work, in the U.S. and…