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‘Smart Cities’ of the Future Will Require More than Big Data
"Embedding sensors into public infrastructure without centralizing and securing the data doesn’t make a city smart or sensible. If anything, it creates mor…
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Hacking in Hollywood: Why the Industry Needs to Shore Up Security
"When it comes to fighting cyber crimes in Hollywood, it’s a case of pay now or pay later. Matwyshyn said the entertainment industry is a prime target for…
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These smart cities in Italy put Silicon Valley to shame
"Al Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, says cities need to work through such issues before starting…
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How Google Glass EE Evades Privacy Questions that Doomed the Original
"For Woodrow Hartzog, a digital privacy expert and professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, the answer to that question is mixed.…
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Who Is Marcus Hutchins?: Security Researcher Community Worried?
"Dr. Richard Forno, director of Graduate Cybersecurity Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, offered a similar response, telling IBT bon…
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New VPN Ban in Russia Latest Step in Increasing Cyber Risk for US Companies
"Moreover, Scott Shackelford, cybersecurity program chair at Indiana University, said the case in part “illustrates the difficulty of shutting down botnets…
Podcast: Access Denied
Journalists are supposed to serve as “watchdogs” on the government. But how do they get access to the information they need to do that? In this episode, we talk…
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Senate Crackdown on Online Sex Trafficking Hits Opposition
"For Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland, the bill’s language — in particular phrases like “assist, support or facilitate sex tr…
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Cybersecurity for the travelling scientist
"It can be tempting to try to hide information or use technological tricks such as 'duress passwords' that, if used instead of the genuine one, unl…
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A white man called her kids the n-word. Facebook stopped her from sharing it.
"The coalition has gathered 570,000 signatures urging Facebook to acknowledge discriminatory censorship exists on its platform, that it harbors white supre…
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That R. Kelly ‘cult’ story almost never ran. Thank Hulk Hogan for that.
"There’s a lot of uncertainty and fear out there, post-Gawker, said Nabiha Syed, BuzzFeed’s assistant general counsel, who vetted the story before publicat…
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How an online wedding registry in my name appeared out of thin air
"Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University and an expert on internet privacy, correctly captured my angst when he told me that…