Susan Landau is Bridge Professor in The Fletcher School and Tufts School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University and Visiting Professor, University College London, Department of Computer Science. She directs Tufts MS program in Cybersecurity and Public Policy. Her most recent book, "People Count: Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health," was published by MIT Press in 2021. Landau has testified before Congress and briefed U.S. and European policymakers on encryption, surveillance, and cybersecurity issues. Landau is a member of the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for Computing Machinery.
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President Biden is right to raise the issue of online child sexual abuse and exploitation, and he should look to a recent report by Laura Draper to address it.
June 19-22, 2023
Cyberwarfare during the Russian invasion of Ukraine has not played out as some expected—but it has an impact with some important long-term implications.
An EU proposal on combating child sexual abuse material online relies on technology not yet invented and, even worse, would create significant national security risks.
In an attempt to prevent the online circulation of child sexual abuse material, a reintroduced Senate bill runs the risk of failing to combat the problem while simultaneously decreasing internet security.
Client-side scanning poses serious technical risks, and there is little that prevents such systems from being repurposed to scan for other types of targeted content.
In developing a system for preventing the spread of child sexual abuse material that involves scanning the material of all those using certain apps, Apple is acclimatizing the idea of bulk surveillance.