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Tarun is a widely cited authority on the advancement of technologies and how they are overturning established industries; trends in cyber security, privacy, and surveillance; their impact on legal systems and societal institutions; and the promise and perils that digital identification technologies are creating in each corner of the globe.

His research, lectures, and interviews have caught the attention of prominent think tanks, universities, consulting groups, and government agencies. Tarun’s opinion and analysis pieces have been cited in hundreds of books and reports. His ideas are used as part of curriculums in schools and corporate training programs around the world.

Interviews and QUOTES:

• Foreign Affairs: Does Big Tech Hurt U.S. National Security?

• CNN: The frightening future of robocalls: Numbers and voices you know; Virtual kidnappings are rattling families across the US

• BBC Radio: One Billion Digitally Identified Indians

• NPR: Congratulations! You've Been Selected To Hear This Wonderful Show About Robocalls!!!

• Fortune: Looking back at a momentous year

• The Wall Street Journal: Ask The Accelerators: Dads In Tech

• Forbes: How a Daring CEO Embraces Change; Where Do We Go After Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Hearings And Q1 Earnings Call?

• Al Jazeera: Would you be fooled by a deepfake?

• Mercury News: Silicon Valley’s million dollar question: Does remote work kill innovation?

• Digital Freedom Fund: Are we overselling “smart cities”?

• Future Tech Podcast: Editing the Code of Life

• The World and Everything In It: The effort to stop robocalls

• SFGate: These San Francisco neighborhoods spend the least cash: What it says about the future

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: SnowJammed? There’s an app for that

• ABC News: Have you noticed that you’ve been getting a lot more robocalls lately?

• Economic Times: Big Tech and fair digital rules; Your employer could be snooping on you, in office and outside

• TRT World News: Facebook’s e-mail controversy; Targeted ads and housing discrimination; Amazon using algorithms to maximize profit; President Trump’s false tweet about Rep Omar

MENTIONS aND CITATIONS: 

• The Atlantic: Rethinking Ethics Training in Silicon Valley

• Brookings Institute: Our Cyborg Future: Law and Policy Implications

• Foreign Policy: Facebook Fires Warning Shot in Fight Against Australian Regulation

• Stanford Law School: Should Criminal Lawyers Engage in Crowdsourcing Criminal Investigations?

• American Bar Association: When Things Get Hacked: Coverage for Cyber-Physical Risks; How to Regulate Disruptive Innovation—From Facts to Data

• International Academy of Design & Technology: Does Eye Tracking Undermine Privacy?

• Boston University Law Review: The Regulatory Arms Race: Mobile-Health Applications and Agency Posturing

• Christian Science Monitor: FBI asks Americans to help ID masked Islamic State jihadi. Good idea?

• Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Automated Facial Recognition in the Public and Private Sectors

• USC International Journal of Communication: Crowdsourcing as a Platform for Digital Labor Unions

• Center For Strategic & International Studies: Innovative Immigration and Border Control Reform