Gautham Sharma

New resources from LGBT Tech and the Justice Education Project examine why privacy must protect not only the information people disclose, but also what data systems claim to know about them.

This month, LGBT Tech co-led an amicus brief, filed jointly with the Center for Democracy & Technology, The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, and The Trevor Project, opposing Colorado House Bill 24-1136, which requires social media platforms to display a warning to any user under the age of 18 who spends more than an hour on the platform in a day, or who is on the platform between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. The warning tells young users that youth who spend more than three hours a day on...