Five Lessons From the Rise of Bodycams
More than two years after Ferguson became a hashtag, spawned a movement, and drew national attention to problems about police accountability, the most tangible…
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Donald Trump’s surveillance state: All the tools to suppress dissent and kill free speech are already in place
"“Surveillance powers have a history of abuse in totalitarian societies,” Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told Salon.…
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How to Fix Silicon Valley’s Sexist Algorithms
"But not everyone believes gender bias should be eliminated from the data sets. Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton,…
How the Tech Industry Can Lead in the Trump Era
This presidential election has kicked off tempestuous debates and much soul searching about the role of technology, especially social media, in the democratic p…
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Area colleges advance their cyber programs
"“They are coming to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for promotion potential and they want to brush up on their knowledge, their professional…
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Boston becomes latest city for driverless car tests, in partnership with nuTonomy
"There are still no official plans for the public to test nuTonomy's vehicles in Boston. The cars will still be supervised by a "research driver,&…
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Fake News, Hate Speech and Social Media Abuse: What’s the Solution?
"Underpinning the moves by the social media companies is a law (section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) that that gives them “a modicum of legal pro…
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Who is Responsible for Autonomous Weapons?
"Peter Asaro, a philosopher of science, technology, and media at The New School in New York City, has been working on addressing these fundamental question…
Citizens need more say over police surveillance technology
Palo Alto lawmakers have proposed legislation granting the community greater control over police surveillance — including the Police Department’s purchase and u…
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Rise of the drones: from policing the streets to painting your house
"Such is the hype. But for every tech company with its head in the clouds, there are problems to bring them back down to earth. “There are big technical ch…
Trump’s election has undermined ‘political correctness.’ That might actually be a problem
Organizations tracking hate crimes have seen a spike in racist and anti-Semitic incidents over the last several days. In the words of Richard Cohen, president o…
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Global Right to Be Forgotten Delisting: Why CNIL is Wrong
The French Data Protection Agency, CNIL, is currently before a French court, arguing that Google needs to do more to comply with “Right to Be Forgotten” or “Rig…