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Congress Is About to Expand Government Hacking Powers
"Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at Samford University who specializes in privacy law, says the history of computer crime law shows that vague language ca…
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Microsoft’s HoloLens headset will allow real tank operators to see the battlefield outside
"“[The technology] would give us the best of both worlds: It would take the human warfighter out of harm’s way, but it would also give robotic systems the…
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'A classic commons problem': Publishers are going notifications crazy
"Publishers have quickly realized the power of mobile notifications in drawing people back to content, so naturally they’re at risk of overdoing it. “This…
Law school administrators would like al-Qaeda to go after U.S. News & World Report. This is why.
Wendy Nelson Espeland and Michael Sauder’s new book, “Engines of Anxiety,” explains how law schools try to game the U.S. News & World Report’s academic rank…
Facebook Must Stay Out of China
Andrew McLaughlin, technology executive: Though it has been evident for years that Mark Zuckerberg really, really wants Facebook to operate in China, I’m genui…
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…