When Selfies Become Surveillance Beacons
Few things represent the age of social media better than posting a selfie. We share these ubiquitous self-portraits with such an urgency you’d think we’d cea…
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The Burr-Feinstein Crypto Bill Would Gut Our Cybersecurity
In the name of saving cybersecurity, a new bill before Congress would kill cybersecurity. On April 13, Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)…
When a Robot Kills, Is It Murder or Product Liability?
I am a law professor who writes about robotics. I’m also a big Paolo Bacigalupi fan, particularly his breakout novel The Windup Girl involving an artificial gir…
Europe’s Web Privacy Rules: Bad for Google, Bad for Everyone
In a concession to regulators, Google is . . . using “geo-blocking” technology to control what European users can see. Under the new system, Google will not onl…
Conservative professors live a closeted life. Here’s why.
Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn Jr. are the authors of Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in The Progressive University, a new book from Oxford Uni…
The Panama Papers and Thomas Piketty
The Panama Papers—the massive collection of leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that helps set up offshore shell corporations—have alre…
This new book explains why so many Islamist extremists have studied engineering
Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog’s new book, “Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education,” examines why a disproportion…
Dr. Peter Asaro on Drone Technology in Eye in the Sky
I have been asked by Science & Film to review the realism of EYE IN THE in terms of the new technologies we see deployed in the film. Most of the technologi…
Here’s What the Burr-Feinstein Anti-Crypto Bill Gets Wrong
The latest Crypto War is being fought on multiple fronts: behind closed doors, in thecourts, and now in Congress. On April 13, Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dia…
A Financial Times columnist says that taxes have nothing to do with fairness. Here’s why he’s wrong.
One of the people to suffer fallout from the Panama Papers leak is David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister. After a few days of equivocation, he was forced to a…
How Governments Can Clear the Road for Self-Driving Cars
So you've decided that your state should have self-driving cars. How, then, do you catch the attention of the Googles, Volvos and Navyas of the world that a…
A massive leak just revealed how the super-rich hide their money. Here’s what you need to know.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has started to release information based on a massive leak of information from a secretive Panamanian…