"“Many folks were expecting Google to do something. When major competitors have come out with a much praised user feature, you can imagine they would come…
"Richard Forno, assistant director of the University of Maryland Baltimore County center for cybersecurity, disapproves of India’s actions but questions wh…
Blocking cookies is bad for privacy. That’s the new disingenuous argument from Google, trying to justify why Chrome is so far behind Safari and Firefox in offer…
"“AI has no well-defined meaning and many so-called AI companies are simply trying to take advantage of the buzz around that term,” says Arvind Narayanan,…
I recently had the pleasure of speaking at the Crypto & Privacy Village, which is part of the massive DEF CON computer security conference (and which I help…
"Jen King, director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, said the information provided by companies may not be as…
"“The (Supreme) Court says the record is way too thin to justify such a sweeping invasion into his private life,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a researcher who…
"“AI just isn’t at the level yet where it can interpret human conversation,” meaning the companies need to rely on monitoring to help train the systems, sa…
"“Even if the phones are well secured, allowing the vendor to take the data off the device and store it on their servers would be a source of security risk…
"“We are thinking very much about functionality. What happens if the box is taken? Then obviously, if the box is taken we have technological concerns about…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who specialises in autonomous driving, agrees. "The technical definition of…
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said the issue of compelling defe…