Tag: Privacy
Apple’s plan to scan your phone raises the stakes on a...
Laurin Weissinger, Tufts University
Apple’s plan to scan customers’ phones and other devices for images depicting child sexual abuse...
Paying with a palm print? We’re victims of our own psychology...
Pam Briggs, Northumbria University, Newcastle
The online retail giant Amazon has moved from our screens to our streets, with...
What are dark patterns? An online media expert explains
Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida
Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors...
What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule? A health law scholar explains
Margaret Riley, University of Virginia
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule is a federal law prohibiting...
Body cameras help monitor police but can invade people’s privacy
Bryce C. Newell, University of Oregon
In the course of their work, police officers encounter people who are intoxicated,...
Companies accused of crimes get more digital privacy rights than people...
Sarah Esther Lageson, Rutgers University - Newark and Elizabeth Chiarello, Saint Louis University
Corporations increasingly receive the same rights as people. Now, it seems,...
5 reasons to let students keep their cameras off during Zoom...
Tabitha Moses, Wayne State University
As the 2020-21 school year gets underway – both at the K-12 and college level – many students find themselves...
Private browsing: What it does – and doesn’t do – to...
Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University and Hana Habib, Carnegie Mellon University
Many people look for more privacy when they browse the web by using their...
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Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
