Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs From Users’ Privately Saved Links

August 30, 2023 Syndicated 0

To date, Google has processed more than seven billion copyright takedown requests for its search engine. The majority of the reported links are purged from Google’s search index, as required by the DMCA. Recently, however, Google appears to gone a step further, using search takedowns to “moderate” users’ privately saved links collections.

The Challenge of Proximity Apps For COVID-19 Contact Tracing

April 12, 2020 Syndicated 0

As part of the nearly unprecedented societal response to COVID-19, such contact tracing apps raise difficult questions about privacy, efficacy, and responsible engineering of technology to advance public health. Above all, we should not trust any application—no matter how well-designed—to solve this crisis or answer all of these questions.