How Much Privacy Should We Trade to Survive a Pandemic?
A number of countries, including South Korea, Italy, and Israel, have begun using digital tools to track the movement of people who are infected, identify those…
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Hypersonic missiles may be unstoppable. Is society ready?
"And of course, the question of warfare itself raises its own massive ethical quandary. Some, like ethicist Patrick Lin, view it as a social problem, not a…
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Coronavirus pandemic sparks new calls for personal surveillance, and concerns
"Al Gidari, the consulting director of privacy at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society and a former top private attorney representing companies like…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Cybersecurity experts slam child protection bill that risks rolling back encryption
""This bill… is clearly a ‘backdoor to a backdoor’ to encryption,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Sta…
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The Technology 202: We asked more than 100 tech experts if U.S. should use location data to track coronavirus. They were split.
"“Aggregate and anonymized location data may be useful to track trends, but public health officials agree that at this point in time, using individualized…
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Privacy rights may become next victim of killer pandemic
""I'm not against fighting this epidemic with data or tech," said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington researcher affiliated with Stanford&#…
Is IoT Going to be a Major Challenge for Global Cybersecurity?
Interviewee: Scott J. Shackelford, Executive Director, and Chair, Ostrom Workshop, and Indiana University-Bloomington Cybersecurity Program, USA PTC provides a…
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MIT Researchers Launch Location-Tracking Effort for the New Coronavirus
"Governments accessing any kind of location data, whether anonymized or not, is always a privacy risk, even though health officials need it during a crisis…
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Confronting Viral Disinformation
"“My worry is that those very important public health officials who have our attention—and should have our attention—will be beset by cyber mobs trying to…
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Disengagements and the race for self-driving supremacy
Road conditions can have a profound effect on disengagements, with more complex urban roads leading to more disengagements. Conversely, highway driving is typic…
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How Location History Can Help Contain Covid-19 While Protecting Privacy
If Typhoid Mary carried a cell phone, you can bet we would all want to know where she’d been over the last few days. Technology exists right now to trace the hi…
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Data privacy erosions could leave a dangerous legacy
"“Now that we face a public health emergency, there are understandable questions as to whether technological solutions might be useful to slow the spread o…