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Ransomware Hits City Of Albany Computers
"Brian Nussbaum is an assistant professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany. "…
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The privacy paradox
""Some of these companies have so much power that we don't have much choice but to use their services — and we can't use these services withou…
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Comments on the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
In collaboration with CIS Visiting Research Scholar Jana Gooth, we have (belatedly) submitted comments to the California Attorney General's office regarding…
A Consumer DNA Testing Company’s Alarming New Marketing Pivot
Sometimes a marketing pivot serves a truth-telling function. A new television ad for the consumer DNA database FamilyTreeDNA asks the public to share their DNA…
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Cute robots, smart underwear, and facial recognition in church: Have we gone too far?
"In the near future, robots might be able to manipulate our emotions, everyone will be rated on everything, and we won’t be able to trust our own eyes, Woo…
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Forget Photoshop. Adobe Is a Marketing Company Now
"This can’t help but sound tone-deaf at a time when the technology industry generates privacy scandals on a near-daily basis. Adobe says it’s helping creat…
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Wilmington police chief concerned about cost of getting body cameras
"But Harlan Yu, executive director of Upturn, a nonprofit that studies the intersection between civil rights and technology, isn’t bullish on the technolog…
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Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords Exposed to Facebook Employees
"Storing passwords in an encrypted format is “not just best practice, it’s something that industry should always do,” said Jennifer Granick, a lawyer with…
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Social Security may use your Facebook and Instagram photos to nix disability claims
""You can't take someone's Facebook or other social media posts at absolute face value," said Jennifer King, director of consumer privacy…
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ACLU Wants Amazon To Stop 'Powering' Government Surveillance That Can Be Used Against Black Activists And Undocumented Immigrants
"“We already know facial recognition algorithms discriminate against black faces and are being used to violate the human rights of immigrants. We know putt…
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One year after Zuckerberg’s testimony about violent content on Facebook, has anything changed?
"“I don’t think it’s an impossible task. It’s a hard task, and it depends on the defaults we want to live with,” said Danielle Citron, a University of Mary…
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How the tragic death of Do Not Track ruined the web for everyone
"Arvind Narayanan, now an associate professor at Princeton and part of that early DNT-formulating group, said via an email statement that the prospect of f…