Woodrow Hartzog

More people will “undoubtedly” have experiences like Scarlett’s, said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University. “And we know from experience that the people who will suffer first and suffer the hardest are women and people of color and other marginalized communities for whom facial-recognition technology serves as a tool […]

On this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast we talk with Northeastern University professor of law and computer science Woodrow Hartzog, whose latest work is Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It.

Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said the current bill “has actually gutted some of the soul” of the Massachusetts Information Privacy Act. He said that earlier legislation was far better in putting “substantive limits” on the type of data that companies could collect and sell, whereas the new […]

The legislation is supported by a spread of organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC); companies such as search engine DuckDuckGo and privacy-focused services provider Proton; and academics including Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Joan Donovan, research director at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center […]

A new Massachusetts proposal—which seems to be getting some traction—could be, in the words of Woody Hartzog, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, “the most revolutionary data-privacy legislation in the United States.”

For Northeastern University professor Woodrow Hartzog, whose research focuses on privacy and artificial intelligence, the rate at which facial recognition technology has been adopted in Massachusetts so far is itself a reason to enact strict regulations.

Woodrow Hartzog, a law and computer science professor at Northeastern University, called the decision a “win” that shows the need for ongoing privacy advocacy and critiques of tech companies.

Woodrow Hartzog is a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.

“We have become so beaten down by this that we just accept it,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeastern University law professor. “The idea that anyone should be expected to read these terms of service is preposterous — they are written to discourage people from reading them.” Contracts are, in theory, meant to be mutually agreeable. […]

Woodrow Hartzog is a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.