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Microsoft hopes its technology will help Americans trust voting again
""The American democracy is messy," said Richard Forno, assistant director of the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland, Baltimo…
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Election Meltdown, Part 5
In the fifth and final part of this special series of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined live on stage in Washington by former Florida gubernatorial candidate An…
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Trump Administration Targets Your 'Warrant-Proof' Encrypted Messages
"Riana Pfefferkorn, at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, says it's a safe bet the best practices would include a requirement t…
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Job hunters face a new hurdle: Impressing AI
"Asked whether he rebuffed HireVue's overture, Narayanan forwarded his email exchange with the company to CBS MoneyWatch. Instead of a private discussi…
Why Europe's GDPR magic will never work in the US
The internet has been with us for a quarter of a century, but the US has still not passed a law requiring its companies to abide by meaningful data-privacy prot…
Warrant-Proof Encrypted Messages Targeted By Trump Administration
"End-to-end encryption" has gone mainstream, which means tech companies can't decrypt messages even when law enforcement has a warrant. The Trump…
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Nuro’s Self-Driving Electric Cars Will Soon Make Deliveries in Houston
The R2 recently received the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) first federal exemption to test a self-driving vehicle on public streets. “It’s a signal…
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Security experts raise concerns about voting app used by military voters
""This study from MIT appears to have been structured with care in the way that the analysis was conducted," said Andrea Matwyshyn, an election s…
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Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop
"Woodrow Hartzog, a law and computer science professor at Northeastern University, doesn’t think privacy armor is the solution to our modern woes. “It cre…
Comments on Telekom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Consultation Paper on "Traffic Management Practices (TMPs) and Multi-Stakeholder Body for Net Neutrality"
On February 13, 2020, Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Sta…
Ben Scott on the Internet’s Evolving Role in Politics
In this episode of Big Tech, Taylor Owen sits down with Ben Scott, director of policy and advocacy at Luminate, to discuss how the internet has evolved througho…