Op-eds
Immersive Tech Obscures Reality. AI Will Threaten It (WIRED, 9/27/23, co-authored with Daniel Berrick)
Unpacking the Privacy Implications of Extended Reality (Tech Policy Press, 4/4/23, co-authored with Daniel Berrick)
Too many flaws in commonwealth’s facial recognition law (The Virginian-Pilot, 6/19/22)
Maryland’s police reform should include restrictions on predictive technology (The Washington Post, 6/25/21)
Unchecked Power? How Law Enforcement Could Leverage Facial Recognition During Protests (Route Fifty, 7/30/20)
Maryland’s face recognition system is one of the most invasive in the nation (The Baltimore Sun, 3/9/20)
Press quotes
Future of state biometric privacy ‘up in the air’ after 2024’s AI explosion (StateScoop, 12/4/24)
Brain wave privacy rights heat up with Colo. vote (Pluribus News, 3/26/24)
Brain-Scanning Technology Spurs State Moves on Neural Privacy (Bloomberg Law, 2/13/24)
Apple’s new Vision Pro is a privacy mess waiting to happen (The Washington Post, 1/30/24)
Agencies Adopt a Cautious Approach to Gathering Metaverse Data (Adweek, 3/7/23)
Future of Privacy Forum Issues XR Data Flow Infographic (XR Today, 10/27/22)
Your face rings a bell (The Times, 5/29/22)
Online Sleuths Are Using Face Recognition to ID Russian Soldiers (WIRED, 3/10/22)
In West Lafayette, a ban on facial recognition technology failed, but questions remain about its use in Indiana (WFYI Indianapolis, 3/7/22)
A new map of NYC’s cameras shows more surveillance in Black and brown neighborhoods (MIT Technology Review, 2/14/22)
NYC Mayor Adams Wants More Facial Recognition Software for Cops (Reason, 2/11/22)
Face recognition, required rules USA, Europe, Japan (Asahi Shimbun, 11/21/21, published in Japanese)
Canadian Regulators Seek Policy Amendments for Facial Recognition (The Wall Street Journal, 6/14/21)
Surveillance Nation (BuzzFeed News, 4/6/21)
Why 2020 was a pivotal, contradictory year for facial recognition (MIT Technology Review, 12/29/20)
Madison Common Council Approves Restrictions On Facial Surveillance Technology (WORT 89.9 FM Madison, 12/2/20, radio segment)
Baltimore City Council Split on Banning Facial Recognition (The Wall Street Journal, 10/21/20)
5 Common Sense Facial Recognition Policies (The Commons, 9/30/20)
In a facial recognition bill backed by Microsoft, three words stand between citizens and their civil rights (Quartz, 9/18/20)
Big tech's pause on facial recognition not likely to blunt deployment (S&P Global Market Intelligence, 7/20/20)
Massachusetts Senate Passes Bill That Would Halt Police Use of Facial Recognition (The Wall Street Journal, 7/14/20)
Face recognition - the end of anonymity? (ORF, Austria Public Radio, 6/26/20; published in German)
'The Computer Got It Wrong': How Facial Recognition Led To A False Arrest In Michigan (NPR, 6/24/20; radio segment)
A Bill in Congress Would Limit Uses of Facial Recognition (WIRED, 6/12/20)
Facial Recognition Companies Commit to Police Market After Amazon, Microsoft Exit (The Wall Street Journal, 6/12/20)
Black Lives Matter could change facial recognition forever—if big tech doesn’t stand in the way (The Washington Post, 6/12/20)
Amazon and Microsoft pause police face recognition and demand regulation (Quartz, 6/11/20)
Denver on Deck for Facial Recognition Ban (Law Week Colorado, 4/29/20)
Privacy is disappearing faster than we realize, and the coronavirus isn't helping (Inlander, 4/23/20)
Where is Face Surveillance Heading? (The Privacy Issue, 4/3/20)
Have Georgia ID? Your face has been searched hundreds of times to see if you look like suspect (WSB-TV Atlanta, 2/19/20, Video)
2020’s first wave of facial surveillance bills (Axios, 1/18/29)
Strip searches and ads: 10 tech and privacy hot spots for 2020 (Reuters/Thomson Reuters Foundation, 12/30/19)
Facial Recognition Software Sparks Transparency Battle (Law360, 11/3/19)
Reconnaissance faciale: le grand malaise (Science et Vie, 9/25/19, published in French)
Federal Agencies Use DMV Photos for Facial Recognition. Here's What You Need to Know. (Consumer Reports, 7/9/19)
Facial Recognition Under Spotlight in Congress, Amazon Meeting (Bloomberg Law, 5/22/19)
Amazon Shareholders Join the Chorus of Critics Worried About Facial Recognition Technology (Mother Jones, 5/22/19)
Lawmakers, tech set for clash over AI (The Hill, 4/17/19)
Podcasts
State of the Net Live 2024: Neurotechnology and Privacy, a New Era of Internet Geopolitics, and the Legal Landscape for Online Expression (2/22/24, Internet Law & Policy Foundry)
Privacy Abbreviated: Filling Privacy Gaps with Soft Law Solutions (8/23/23, BBB National Programs)
Voices of VR: XR Privacy Landscape & Data Flows with Future of Privacy Forum’s Jameson Spivack (3/7/23, #1176)
City Surveillance Watch: Setting Guardrails (2/8/21, Smart Cities Dive podcast series, episode 3)
City Surveillance Watch: Network Effect (1/25/21, Smart Cities Dive podcast series, episode 2)
City Surveillance Watch: Balancing Act (1/11/21, Smart Cities Dive podcast series, episode 1)
In Machines We Trust: Who Owns Your Face? (8/12/20, MIT Technology Review)
Banned in PDX: Tug-of-War over Police Facial Recognition Finds a Raw Moment in Portland (8/3/20)
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs podcast episode “Facial Recognition Technology, Policy, & the Pandemic” (4/7/20)
Blog posts
U.S. Legislative Trends in AI-Generated Content: 2024 and Beyond (11/4/24)
Manipulative and Deceptive Design: New Challenges in Immersive Environments (4/29/24)
Privacy and the Rise of “Neurorights” in Latin America (3/20/24, co-authored with Beth Do, Maria Badillo, and Randy Cantz)
Identifying Privacy Risks and Implementing Best Practices for Body-Related Data in Immersive Technologies (1/25/24, co-authored with Daniel Berrick)
Understanding Body-Related Data Practices and Ensuring Legal Compliance in Immersive Technologies (1/11/24, co-authored with Daniel Berrick)
Old Laws & New Tech: As Courts Wrestle with Tough Questions Under US Biometric Laws, Immersive Tech Raises New Challenges (7/27/23, co-authored with Tatiana Rice and Daniel Berrick)
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Technologies Automating Inequities in the Criminal Legal System (5/30/23)
Understanding Extended Reality Technology & Data Flows: Privacy and Data Protection Risks and Mitigation Strategies (11/17/22, co-authored with Daniel Berrick)
Understanding Extended Reality Technology & Data Flows: XR Functions (10/31/22, co-authored with Daniel Berrick)
What’s past is prologue, present, and future [on predictive police technologies] (6/2/22)
Innovation illusion: how “innovation” obscures the human costs driving technological change (1/12/21)
The conversation on face recognition technology is just getting started (12/17/19)
Trusting “somewhat” is not enough: why we need to regulate face recognition (8/9/19)
The best disinfectant [the importance of FOIA] (8/7/19)
It’s not just the tech sector that isn’t representative — it’s the people making the laws, too (6/27/19)