Threats remain to US voting system – and voters’ perceptions of reality
As the 2018 midterms proceed, there are still significant risks to the integrity of the voting system – and information warfare continues to try to influence th…
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Facebook’s Failure to End ‘Public by Default’
Co-authored by Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger Turns out, you can’t create an idyllic global village by fetishizing connecting people. In the most recent cha…
Hypocrisy is a useful tool in foreign affairs. Trump is too crude to play the game.
The killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the Trump administration’s response to it expose — among other things — the decay of one of America’s most c…
30 years ago, the world's first cyberattack set the stage for modern cybersecurity challenges
Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to kno…
Does AI Ethics Need to be More Inclusive?
Last week, MIT Media Lab researchers published results from its global survey on autonomous driving ethics. The survey, dubbed the “Moral Machine experiment”,…
The Privacy Professional: A Modern Day Renaissance Man
Hollywood writers could not have scripted it better. Merely a month before the implementation date of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May this…
Academic ideas are supposed to thrive on their merits. If only.
Allison C. Morgan, Dimitrios J. Economou, Samuel F. Way and Aaron Clauset are all scholars in the department of computer science at the University of Colorado a…
The Torture of Forcibly Separating Children from their Parents
As discussed in my prior post, President Donald Trump’s family separation policy has come under legal assault from a number of civil society organizations, 17 U…
Disinformation on Steroids
Introduction Disinformation and distrust online are set to take a turn for the worse. Rapid advances in deep-learning algorithms to synthesize video and audio…
Family Separations: Evolved Not Resolved
With all that is going on, the issue of family separations at the border has slipped from view. But, a new article in the current issue of The New Yorker about…
Filtering Out the Bots: What Americans Actually Told the FCC about Net Neutrality Repeal
In the leadup to the FCC's historic vote in December 2017 to repeal all net neutrality protections, 22 million comments were filed to the agency. But unfor…
Would 'Deviant' Sex Robots Violate Asimov's Law of Robotics?
Like it or not, sex robots are already here, and someday they might hurt you, if you ask nicely. As they cater to an ever-increasing range of tastes, some folk…