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How to Protect Privacy When Aggregating Location Data to Fight COVID-19

How to Protect Privacy When Aggregating Location Data to Fight COVID-19

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItIn the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a location data broker called Veraset offered officials in Washington, DC full access to its proprietary database of “highly sensitive” , collected from cell phones, for the entire DC metro area.The officials accepted the offer, according to ...Vaccine mandates are becoming increasingly urgent from public health officials and various governments. As they roll out, we must protect users of vaccine passports and those who do not want to use—or cannot use—a...

April 6, 2020
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University App Mandates Are The Wrong Call

University App Mandates Are The Wrong Call

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItIn the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a location data broker called Veraset offered officials in Washington, DC full access to its proprietary database of “highly sensitive” , collected from cell phones, for the entire DC metro area.The officials accepted the offer, according to ...Vaccine mandates are becoming increasingly urgent from public health officials and various governments. As they roll out, we must protect users of vaccine passports and those who do not want to use—or cannot use—a...

July 30, 2020
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Powerful Permissions, Wimpy Warnings: Installing a Root Certificate Should be Scary

Powerful Permissions, Wimpy Warnings: Installing a Root Certificate Should be Scary

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare Itissuer certificateinspecttrafficdeviceInstallingcertificate trusted certificatescertificatetrusted Certificate Trust Settings iOS's warning is much larger, but doesn't explain at all what significance this action may have to a non-technical user.The good news: it’s possible to get this sort of messaging right. The prompt that appears when entering the developer console on the Facebook website. Share ItIn a victory for users, Slack has fixed its for free workspaces. Instead of holding onto your...

February 16, 2019
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Student Privacy and the Fight to Keep Spying Out of Schools: Year in Review 2020

Student Privacy and the Fight to Keep Spying Out of Schools: Year in Review 2020

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItShare ItOnline proctoring companies employ a lengthy list of dangerous monitoring and tracking techniques in an attempt to determine whether or not students are potentially cheating, many of which are and . This week, one of the more invasive techniques—the “room scan”— by a...Last year, several parents at EFF enrolled kids into daycare and were instantly told to download an application for managing their children’s care. Daycare and preschool applications frequently include notifications of feedings, diaper...

December 29, 2020
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