Tag: Privacy
The countries that trust Facebook the most are also the most...
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University
The latest shoe has dropped on Facebook: Private data on 50 million users found its way to a shadowy research outfit,...
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...
Real security requires strong encryption – even if investigators get blocked
Susan Landau, Tufts University
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have been fighting against easy, widespread public access to encryption technologies for 25...
Our laws don’t do enough to protect our health data
Sharona Hoffman, Case Western Reserve University
Have you ever wondered why your computer often shows you ads that seem tailor-made for your interests? The answer...
It’s the year 2020…how’s your cybersecurity?
Steven Weber, University of California, Berkeley and Betsy Cooper, University of California, Berkeley
What if, in 2020, wearable devices did not care about how many...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
