Center on Privacy & Technology

Hiring in an equitable way is hard, but worthwhile work.

A secretive utilities data exchange could be selling out your name and home address to immigration enforcement.

How “innovation” obscures the human costs driving technological change.

With a stroke of his pen, President Biden could begin to dismantle DHS’s domestic surveillance infrastructure.

A personal story about the practice of journaling and the privacy desired for it.

A reflection on our year of “slow work” policies and remote work.

A new paper from Center staff about legislative approaches to face recognition was published in AI Now Institute’s biometrics compendium.

“A Seat at the Table” provides tips on advertising practices, creating opportunities, and retaining underrepresented employees.

Face recognition is a tool that removes the shield of anonymity from people protesting systemic racism and anti-blackness.

Modern surveillance technology facilitates employer interference with workers’ right to organize.

As some people shift to working from home, employers are expanding their surveillance. Workers need stronger data protection.

A breakdown of NIST’s report on the effect of demographics on the accuracy of face recognition systems.

In 2019, face recognition technology became an integral part of the public privacy debate. In 2020, these conversations will come to a head.

What you can do about the issues discussed at The Color of Surveillance conference.

Employers are collecting more and more information on workers using more invasive, granular, and constant methods. Here’s a solution.

“Always-on” work culture can be toxic. The Center’s Founding Director Alvaro Bedoya lays out our new “slow work” policies to combat this.

The public is more skeptical of police face recognition than recent studies would you have believe. Either way, regulations are necessary.

Public access to government records is vital to a functioning democracy and fuels much of our work on face recognition.

There’s confusion around how Detroit uses face recognition. Unfortunately, Mayor Duggan’s statements are misleading and don’t offer…

Documents recently uncovered by the Center indicate that ICE is running face recognition searches on driver’s license photos.

To mitigate the harms of AI we need not only a diverse tech sector, but a diverse group of people regulating the tech sector.

On this Juneteenth, technology still has a long way to go to helping create a more equitable society

Welcome to the Center on Privacy & Technology blog! Here we’ll post our thoughts on the intersection of tech, privacy, and civil rights.