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Your Pacemaker Can Now Testify Against You and So Can Nearly Anything Else

Originally posted on Substack We’re increasingly bringing surveillance upon ourselves with the devices we use. These devices are gathering an enormous amount of our data, and this information is readily available for the government to access. Professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson tackles the implications of these developments in his new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing […]

A Disastrous Federal Privacy Bill

Originally posted on Substack Unlike 160+ countries, unlike almost every industrialized nation, the U.S. has been an outlier because it lacks a comprehensive privacy law. Congress has been trying repeatedly to pass one, without luck, an effort that has faltered because such a law involves many complicated issues that require thoughtfulness and compromise, which don’t […]

Accountability for Technology and AI

Originally posted on Substack AI and digital technologies have been unleashed upon us, with an unprecedented zeal and recklessness, and a reckoning is long overdue. The Meta and YouTube $6 million addiction verdict this week is an important milestone. I’m not an expert on the addiction issue, so I won’t opine on the merits of the case. […]

Are Warrants Enough?

Originally posted on Substack This year, in Chatrie v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether geofence warrants are valid under the Fourth Amendment. The geofence warrant at issue in the case was one that allowed the government to obtain account data from Google of hundreds of millions of users. It’s the equivalent to […]