Center on Privacy & Technology

How seriously does the Biden Administration take its international human rights obligations? Based on a White House meeting the Privacy…

While new surveillance technology is being developed for the workplace, the story of sacrificing worker health for productivity remains the…

Third-party computer algorithms “remove the face” of decision-makers, and other key insights from the virtual event

A brief interview with one of the newest staff members of the Center on Privacy & Technology team.

A brief interview with one of the newest staff members of the Center on Privacy & Technology team

I learned how to inoculate myself against some of the toxic ideologies popular in some modern tech circles. You can too.

Money is often not the first thing that comes to mind when we talk about privacy. But a case before a federal court in California suggests…

Executive Director Emily Tucker explains what OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is hoping for when he says the government should regulate technologies.

The increasing consolidation of daily life into a single device is keeping some of us glued to our phones, while shutting others out of…

“Public interest communications” as a term may seem confusing to some people hearing it for the first time. Serena Zets unpacks it here.

“There are things the FTC can do, but the FTC can’t do everything that needs to be done.”

Despite the well-documented harms associated with police use of facial recognition technology, businesses are becoming increasingly reliant…

How the NYPD’s street lighting campaign illuminates the problems with law enforcement surveillance technology

On January 30, 2019, New Jersey resident Nijeer Parks received a call from his grandmother informing him that he was wanted by the police…

The upcoming holidays are on the minds of the Center on Privacy & Technology staff. We are a team of people who care deeply about community…

Algorithmic discrimination is building a more deeply stratified society — while concealing the ghost of systemic oppression in the machine.

Brown’s 2012 book about vulnerability also has lessons for privacy in a modern world.

In putting together the programming for the Color of Surveillance: Policing of Abortion and Reproduction, we selected session topics…

Predictive police technologies create the future they foresee by extending the present.

One day in late July 2014, I recruited my co-counsels and law clerks on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy to help me move my…

Executive Director Emily Tucker explains why you won’t hear us say “artificial intelligence.”

Five Reasons “Transparency” Won’t Stop Algorithmic Discrimination

What happens if you’re afraid to sign up for water or gas or electricity?