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The Crypto-Circus comes to town -- again
As part of it's 50th anniversary celebrations, the Australian university where I did graduate work recently interviewed me on a range of cybersecurity topic…
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‘Smart Cities’ of the Future Will Require More than Big Data
"Embedding sensors into public infrastructure without centralizing and securing the data doesn’t make a city smart or sensible. If anything, it creates mor…
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Hacking in Hollywood: Why the Industry Needs to Shore Up Security
"When it comes to fighting cyber crimes in Hollywood, it’s a case of pay now or pay later. Matwyshyn said the entertainment industry is a prime target for…
California Court of Appeal Overturns Dangerous Right of Publicity Ruling
Almost all posts on social media include depictions of real people. And most social media websites include advertising. Does this combination mean that nearly e…
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Can Government Keep Up with Artificial Intelligence?
"“There is no possible way to have some omnibus AI law,” says Ryan Calo, a professor of law and co-director of the Tech Policy Lab at the University of Was…
North Korea just called Trump’s bluff. So what happens now?
Yesterday, President Trump took a break from his 17-day vacation to threaten North Korea. His words: North Korea best not make any more threats to the United S…
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These smart cities in Italy put Silicon Valley to shame
"Al Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, says cities need to work through such issues before starting…
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Facebook Wins ‘Right of Publicity’ Case Against Country-Rap Singer
""There are a lot of both statutes and doctrines designed to make it more difficult [for people] to challenge speech online about them that they simpl…
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Court says patent troll didn’t invent podcasting
"“We’re pleased that the Federal Circuit agreed that the podcasting patent is invalid,” said Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney at the EFF and the Mark Cuban C…
How U.S. government statistics work, explained by the country’s Chief Statistician
Nancy Potok is the chief statistician of the United States. I interviewed her last month about her role, and the challenges faced by the U.S. national statistic…
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How Google Glass EE Evades Privacy Questions that Doomed the Original
"For Woodrow Hartzog, a digital privacy expert and professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, the answer to that question is mixed.…
Steve Ballmer has a big idea: to be a partisan for the facts
Steve Ballmer is the former chief executive of Microsoft, and the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. This is the second part of an interview with him ab…