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How Drug Companies Are Using Your DNA To Make New Medicine
"“Consumers really need to think about what they’re getting into,” said Richard Forno, assistant director of the Center for Cybersecurity at the University…
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Ellucian Banner Security Flaw Draws Federal Concern
"Scott Shackelford, professor of law and cybersecurity program chair at Indiana University at Bloomington, said it is not uncommon for organizations to tak…
Silicon Valley paints itself as a hotbed of free enterprise. Here’s how the government helped build it.
Margaret O’Mara is a professor of history at the University of Washington. Her new book, “The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America,” was just publis…
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'Sony Research Award Program' Continues for Fourth Year
""Many technology companies have joined industry initiatives on AI ethics, but Sony has taken the extra step to support independent academic study on…
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Instacart Hounds Workers to Take Jobs That Aren’t Worth It
"“If you don’t accept it, someone else will.” Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, says such systems are “designed to be manipulativ…
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Bring AFP 'to heel' or forget US security agreement
"Stanford University academic Riana Pfefferkorn said "unprecedented" police raids on the press had made it harder for Australia to assure securit…
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Denver-area neighborhoods are installing license plate readers to record every vehicle that passes by
"“We can’t begin to fathom how fast we’re moving to a ‘Star Trek’ world,” said Albert Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Int…
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Adapting Advertising Infrastructure for Content Regulation: WIPO’s BRIP Blacklist
In the name of “brand safety,” advertisers these days are working hard to better control where their ads appear online. Programmatic advertising with real-time…
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Australia's anti-encryption laws being used to bypass journalist protections, expert says
"This undermined protections granted to journalists under other national security legislation, said cybersecurity researcher Riana Pfefferkorn, an associat…
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Encryption law making life harder for journalists: claim
"Dr Pfefferkorn, who works with the Stanford Centre for Internet and Society, but made her submission in an individual capacity, said the Australian Federa…
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Expert: The AFP used our new anti-encryption laws to raid the ABC
"As The Guardian has already noted, cybersecurity expert Riana Pfefferkorn has taken umbrage with the process, adding a personal submission to the parliame…
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Australia’s anti-encryption bill is allowing the government to openly spy on journalists
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at Stanford Center for Internet and Society, pointed out that this undermines the…