Items tagged ‘privacy’
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Four Things You Need to Know About Privacy of 911 Callers
Last week the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously to pass rules that will require mobile phone carriers to provide emergency ... -
Public Safety Doesn’t Have to Come at the Expense of Privacy
Privacy groups urge FCC Chairman and Commissioners to Resolve E911 Privacy Concerns
When you dial 911, you expect emergency responders to—well—respond, often by coming to you. But as more and more people use mobile devices to conta... -
Should We Assume We’ve Been Hacked?
What individuals and businesses can learn from recent cybersecurity breaches
The State Department confirmed a security breach of its unclassified email system on Monday – the fourth infiltration of a federal government agenc... -
USA FREEDOM Act: Broad, Bipartisan Support from Companies, Civil Society, and the Intelligence Community Alike
It has been over a year and a half since America first began to learn about the broad scope of the NSA’s surveillance programs. After months of car... -
The #CryptoDebate is Coming: Are You Prepared?
When Apple and Google announced their plans to enable encryption by default on new iPhones and Android smartphones, they ignited a ferocious debate... -
As USA FREEDOM Act Heads to Senate Floor, OTI Reaffirms Its Strong Support and Opposes Any Anti-Privacy Amendments
New AmericaWASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday evening, Senator Reid moved to end debate and call the USA FREEDOM Act (S. 2685) up for a vote on the Senate floor, a vo... -
Privacy Groups Including OTI Unite to Oppose Expansion of Government Hacking Authority
Today at 9 AM in Washington DC, the Open Technology Institute’s Policy Director Kevin Bankston will be testifying at a hearing before the Judicial ... - policy paper | October 27, 2014 | Open Technology Institute
Data and Discrimination
Collected Essays
Despite significant political and cultural transformations since the Civil Rights movement and other social upheavals of the Sixties and Seventies,... - in the news | September 30, 2014 | Open Technology Institute
Smartphone Encryption Restores Public Trust in Technology
The choice by Apple and Google to incorporate privacy-as-default features into their products adds a populist element to privacy vs. state security... -
Surveillance Costs: The NSA's Impact on the Economy, Internet Freedom & Cybersecurity
It has been over a year since The Guardian reported the first story on the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs based on the leaks from... -
OTI Analysis of Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA, S. 2588)
The following is the introduction to the Open Technology Institute's analysis of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (CISA, S. 2588),... -
National Insecurity Agency: How the NSA Undermines Internet Security
On the heels of the latest NSA disclosures from The Washington Post, the Open Technology Institute hosted an event on Monday about how the agency’s... -
Info Sharing with NSA is a Non-Starter – and Only One of the New Cybersecurity Bill’s Many Problems
The last time the Senate considered cybersecurity information-sharing legislation was in July 2012, when it took up the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (... -
OTI Convenes Researchers to Discuss Data and Discrimination
Building on its work on privacy, civil rights, and social justice, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute will host a research conv... -
This Week: "Transparency Reporting for Beginners" in San Francisco and Austin
This afternoon in San Francisco at the Internet and human rights conference Rightscon, OTI's policy director Kevin Bankston will be appearing on th... -
Civil Rights in the Age of Big Data
Digital information about who we are and what we do is the currency of our digital economy and the substrate of our digital society. As the flow of... -
Pervasive surveillance, individual freedoms, and collective justice
The problem of pervasive surveillance technologies drums up passionate defenses of individual freedom and civil liberties, but what about collectiv... -
Data Profiling and Social Justice -- Remarks prepared for Eyebeam's “PRISM Breakup”
Presentation by Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Senior Research Fellow at Open Technology Institute, at PRISM Breakup in New York City, Saturday, October 5...