With one simple change, Facebook could pass an important privacy test — Co-authored by Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger Turns out, you can’t create an idyllic global village by fetishizing connecting people. In the most recent chapter of the book on why Silicon Valley still doesn’t get it, the New York Times recently reported that Facebook “removed 66 accounts, pages and apps…

With such a grave threat to privacy and civil liberties, measured regulation should be abandoned in favor of an outright ban — Co-authored with Evan Selinger The Trojans would have loved facial recognition technology. It’s easy to accept an outwardly compelling but ultimately illusory view about what the future will look like once the full potential of facial recognition technology is unlocked. From this perspective, you’ll never have to meet a stranger…

There’s a better way for us to interact with tech companies — The user agreement has become a potent symbol of our asymmetric relationship with technology firms. For most of us, it’s our first interaction with a given company. We sign up and are asked to read the dreaded user agreement — a process that we know signifies some complex and inconveniently…