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Is Your Security Strategy Dumbing Down Your Smart Factory?
"In a recent paper, Indiana University Professor Scott Shackelford examines the cyber risk in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), including security…
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Have a Search Warrant for Data? Google Wants You to Pay
"The new fees could help recover some of the costs required to fill such a large volume of legal requests, said Al Gidari, a lawyer who for years represent…
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Technology created deepfakes—does it have a way to stop them, too?
"“The verification technology is promising but my worry is that as we become more sensitized to the existence of deepfakes and misinformation that may make…
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You Asked, We Answered: Are My Health Records Being Sold To Advertisers?
"Jennifer King is Director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford Law School and a self-described “privacy zealot.” When I told her Hannah’s story, Jennifer immed…
Why nonprofits are wary about a private firm buying the dot-org domain
I spoke with Andrew McLaughlin, who helped found ICANN and create the original dot-org registration process. He’s also one of the people pushing for the new non…
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As use of facial recognition expands, travelers worry about privacy
"The problem, though, goes far beyond what a few airlines and cruise lines are testing. “It is common to have your fingerprints scanned and your picture ta…
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What Government Gets Wrong About Technology
"“You get outrages of the day and lawmakers say, ‘I want do something,’ and you can pass a bad law,” says Ryan Singel, a media and strategy fellow at Stanf…
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The hits and misses of using Artificial intelligence for recruitment
"Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University, puts it more succinctly, “Much of what’s being sold as ‘AI’ today is snake oil — i…
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Microsoft Looms Over the Privacy Debate in Its Home State
"Two Microsoft employees sat opposite one another in a Washington State Senate hearing room last Wednesday. Ryan Harkins, the company’s senior director of…
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One State May Become the First to Ban Law Enforcement Use of Genealogy Databases
"Jen King, the director of consumer privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that cases like the Golden State Killer make it difficult…
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Apple iCloud: How safe is it from hackers?
""Apple typically encrypts those backups in a way that provides security against hackers while still also enabling Apple to provide the decrypted data…
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The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
"Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University in Boston, sees Clearview as the latest proof that facial recognition…