Tag: Data privacy
Encrypted smartphones secure your identity, not just your data
Susan Landau, Tufts University
Smartphones store your email, your photos and your calendar. They provide access to online social media sites like Facebook and Twitter,...
Your mobile phone can give away your location, even if you...
Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University
U.S. military officials were recently caught off guard by revelations that servicemembers’ digital fitness trackers were storing the locations of their...
Is there such a thing as online privacy? 7 essential reads
Jeff Inglis, The Conversation
Over the course of 2017, people in the U.S. and around the world became increasingly concerned about how their digital data...
Is there such a thing as online privacy? 7 essential reads
Jeff Inglis, The Conversation
Over the course of 2017, people in the U.S. and around the world became increasingly concerned about how their digital data...
Equifax breach is a reminder of society’s larger cybersecurity problems
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Equifax data breach was yet another cybersecurity incident involving the theft of significant personal data from a...
Big data security problems threaten consumers’ privacy
Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University
As more personal information is collected up by ever-more-powerful computers, giant sets of data – big data – have become...
Is big data heading for its ‘horsemeat moment’?
By Duncan Shaw, University of Nottingham
There have been so many leaks, hacks and scares based on misuse or misappropriation of personal data that any...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
