Privacy Bingo!
As a longtime privacy advocate, lawyer, and “certified information privacy professional,” privacy and its accompanying policy debates can become a bunch of shorthanded caricatures...
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An Ethics Course Review
As my semester teaching communications ethics wraps up, I had my students pair up to present case studies/discussion problems from the textbook. One presentation...
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Data Portability and the Metaverse – Q&A
Ahead of the Data Transfer Initiative’s DMA-celebrating portability summit, I participated in a Q&A with DTI’s Policy Director, Delara Derakhshani, to talk about how...
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Wired: “Pretty Soon, Your VR Headset Will Know Exactly What Your Bedroom Looks Like”
With Meta positioning its Quest 3 as a “mixed reality” device, I’ve been telling anyone I can that there’s a major policy discussion to...
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Brookings: Data-Driven Video Games
Whenever I see colleagues start contributing to some online publication, it tends to trigger in me a desire to write something of my own....
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Safe and Secure VR: Policy Issues Impacting Kids' Use of Immersive Tech
After Oculus Quest commercials blanketed the airwaves before the holidays, a number of folks at Common Sense Media raised concerns about Facebook’s take on...
Read MoreITIF: How to Balance Privacy and Innovation in Augmented and Virtual Reality
In the wake of my white paper on the implications of virtual reality for kids, I joined a panel hosted by the Information Technology...
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Privacy Nuts and Bolts: How Washington lawmakers can protect our digital privacy
For the past two years, I have been personally and professionally invested in the Washington Privacy Act. The 2021 iteration, SB 5062, is the...
Read MoreA Voice of VR, Episode #951
Several weeks ago, I was invited to join Kent Bye’s podcast to discuss the state of U.S. privacy law. Kent’s Voices of VR Podcast...
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Project Aria and Mapping Augmented Reality
On the heels of Facebook’s announcement that Reality Labs would be deploying smart glasses to both assist in mapping and create “digital twin” of...
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