Abstract Misinformation and disinformation, often in the form of fake news disseminated on social media, are proliferating in the “post-truth” era, with profou…
"“The danger that ‘privacy’ doesn’t capture is this idea of creep,” says Frischmann, an internet law expert at Villanova University. Like letting that rand…
Today I have a response piece up on the Boston Review, responding to an intriguing essay by Bruce Schneier and CIS affiliate Henry Farrell about how to protect…
On this episode of National Security Podcast, Katherine Mansted speaks to Scott Schakelford, Angie Raymond, and Abbey Stemler on social media’s influence on dem…
"“You have more grounded expectations about the timeline for these technologies, combined with a lack of industry push for legislation,” says Bryant Walker…
The Internet was going to set us all free. At least, that is what U.S. policy makers, pundits, and scholars believed in the 2000s. The Internet would undermine…
The key term that recurs throughout Henry Farrell’s and Bruce Schneier’s essay is “trust.” That is no surprise, as the concept unites both authors’ bodies of wo…
"That question is at the heart of hundreds of cases across the country and is likely to become more pressing as bias-motivated incidents rise in tandem wit…
Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos on Thursday debuted a new lunar landing module, to be constructed by his space exploration company, Blue Origin.…
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, points out old-fashioned gum shoe…
"“Unimpressive,” declared Princeton computer scientist Jonathan Mayer, who said the scheme would be easy for advertisers to evade. “This is not privacy lea…
"Jen King, the director of privacy for the Center for Internet and Society, says she believes that most people tend to find privacy settings very confusing…