Any new gun control would need to address norms, as well as laws
After the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the national argument about gun control seems to have taken a new turn. The National Rifle Asso…
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Report On Device Encryption Suggests A Few Ways Forward For Law Enforcement
"Another paper has been released, adding to the current encryption discussion. The FBI and DOJ want access to the contents of locked devices. They call enc…
This simple technological fix helped veterans get health benefits
The U.S. Digital Service has taken on the task of helping the federal government adapt to new technologies. I interviewed Matt Cutts, the head of the service, a…
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From fake news to fabricated video, can we preserve our shared reality?
"“When you see something, or when you believe that you’re seeing something and hearing something, it has a much more visceral impact on you, by and large,…
America has a big disinformation problem, and it's driven by digital advertising and data hoarding
Just after Valentine’s Day last year, New Yorkers were treated to a very unusual digital billboard ad draping one side of the Port Authority in Manhattan. It re…
What cybersecurity investigators can learn from airplane crashes
While some countries struggle with safety, U.S. airplane travel has lately had a remarkable safety record. In fact, from 2014 through 2017, there were no fatal…
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‘Deepfakes’: Pandora’s Box — or the next step in entertainment and pleasure?
"“This would hardly be the first time that a new technology with a lot of potential was first adopted by pornography,” Calo said. “You see that with the in…
Microsoft, Ireland, and the Rest of the World
United States v. Microsoft will be practically significant for its effect on law enforcement’s ability to access data stored abroad, and it has the potential to…
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This Startup’s Test Shows How Harassment Targets Women Online
"Danielle Citron, law professor at the University of Maryland and the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, says Enthoven’s experience lines up with researc…
Deep Fakes: A Looming Crisis for National Security, Democracy and Privacy?
“We are truly fucked.” That was Motherboard’s spot-on reaction to deep fake sex videos (realistic-looking videos that swap a person’s face into sex scenes actua…
Amazon’s next big TV series is based on Iain Banks’s Culture novels. What are the Culture novels?
Jeffrey P. Bezos, the CEO of Amazon (and owner of The Washington Post), has announced that Amazon Studios is adapting Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels as a TV ser…
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Is it time to crack down on facial recognition?
"Peter Asaro, a philosopher of technology at the New School in New York, said it may be best to see how authorities use the tools before getting too specif…