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Lauren Sarkesian

  • Senior Policy Counsel at New America’s Open Technology Institute, Freelance
Washington, D.C.
As seen in: Slate, New America, Just Security, Issues in Science and Technology
Tech, Justice, Policy things — @OTI, House, Senate, @ObamaWhiteHouse alum — Armenian 🇦🇲 Michigander (#goblue). Tweets: mine!
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A Technical Explainer on Apple’s Concerning Privacy Changes

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By Nat Meysenburg, Lauren Sarkesian, Ross Schulman, Andi Wilson Thompson
| New America
Brief Sukrita Rungroj/shutterstock.com Aug. 30, 2021 On August 5th Apple released new plans for how it handles users’ data on the iPhone and iPad platform, some of which have significant and very concerning implications for user privacy. In a new page on its website, entitled Child Safety, Apple announced updates that it is making to its operating systems in an attempt to address the problem of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).
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Congress Eyeing Ban on Federal Data Acquisition

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By Tom Burroughs, Lauren Sarkesian, Spandana Singh
| Issues in Science and Technology
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Your Dating App Data Might Be Shared With the U.S. Government

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By Lauren Sarkesian, Spandana Singh
| Slate
By Lauren Sarkesian and Spandana Singh March 05, 20211:12 PM When you download a dating app, fill out a profile with some of your most private information, and select “allow app to access location” to locate nearby potential love interests, you may feel a little exposed, but you proceed anyway, in order to find those dates.
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