By: Tina Butoiu* and Carolyn Islam** How would you feel if you were never sure if your phone was being tracked, your messages and calls tapped into, and your personal data copied? Would it make you less likely to engage
Private Surveillance, Technology, Companies and States
By: Kyoolee Park* A recent New York Times article describes a lawsuit filed in late October by WhatsApp against the NSO Group, which alleges that the Israeli company’s spyware compromised roughly 1,400 mobile devices of WhatsApp users. The article also
Berlin workshop on social media, hate speech and local engagement
In November 2018, the Special Rapporteur held a two-day workshop in Berlin to discuss how approaches to commercial content moderation should meaningfully integrate local engagement and input in addressing difficult areas of content, such as hate speech and threats of
Comments on New Australian Law on Online “Abhorrent Violent Material”
Australia has adopted a law that would penalize platforms and their executives for a failure to control what it calls “abhorrent violent material.” The law is deeply problematic, as was the extraordinarily compressed timeframe for its adoption (basically two days).