Information Attacks on Democracies
Democracy is an information system. That's the starting place of our new paper: “Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy.” In it, we look at democracy throug…
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What is blockchain?
"To help cut through the noise, we talked with Scott Shackelford, associate professor and Cybersecurity Program Chair at Indiana University to get to the b…
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Google Home and Amazon Echo Can Store Your Voice Recordings. Here's When They Could Be Used Against You.
"“That’s pretty damning evidence right there,” said Richard Forno, an affiliate of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society (CIS). But when i…
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People are going to sell sex in driverless cars, researchers say
"“There are dangers of collision, of getting thrown around,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who focuses on a…
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You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die
"When Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, first became aware of the fake porn movies, she was initially struck by how viscer…
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Should the Government Require Companies to Meet Cybersecurity Standards for Critical Infrastructure?
Richard Forno, director of the graduate cybersecurity program and assistant director of the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Co…
The Carpenter Chronicle: A Near-Perfect Surveillance
On May 24, 1844, a crowd gathered inside the United States Supreme Court chambers in the basement of the Capitol, eagerly awaiting a demonstration of an amazing…
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Privacy Group Asks European Regulators To Test GDPR Against Seven Tech Companies
"“Ultimately, regulators and courts will have to decide what is the right balance between individuals’ privacy concerns and businesses’ interest to pursue…
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Obscurity by Design
To make sense of this world, and to try to sift through the new emerging definitions of privacy, I turned to Woodrow Hartzog. In recent years, Hartzog has emerg…
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Threats remain to US voting system – and voters’ perceptions of reality
Threats remain to US voting system – and voters' perceptions of reality As Americans go to the polls, the voting process and the information environment ar…
Blame Fox, not Facebook, for fake news
Yochai Benkler, Rob Faris and Hal Robert, three scholars affiliated with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, have a new book, “Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Dis…
Threats remain to US voting system – and voters’ perceptions of reality
As the 2018 midterms proceed, there are still significant risks to the integrity of the voting system – and information warfare continues to try to influence th…