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Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
Filippo Gualtiero Blancato| March 1, 2024
Both leading up to and during his deadly assault on Orlando night club Pulse, Omar Mateen accessed his Facebook account.Wired From ACM Opinion | June 20, 2016
Deep learning is rapidly 'eating' artificial intelligence. But let's not mistake this ascendant form of artificial intelligence for anything more than it really...Wired From ACM Opinion | June 15, 2016
Nick McKeown and his new startup, Barefoot Networks, just launched out of stealth. That's Silicon Valley-speak for trumpeting the arrival of your new startup in...Wired From ACM Opinion | June 15, 2016
American airport security has never been something to look forward to, but in the past few weeks, it's attained new levels of misery.Wired From ACM Opinion | May 27, 2016
On May 8, a group of Danish researchers publicly released a dataset of nearly 70,000 users of the online dating site OkCupid, including usernames, age, gender,...Wired From ACM Opinion | May 16, 2016
Last month, WhatsApp, the hugely popular messaging service that Facebook owns, made end-to-end encryption the default for its 1 billion users. On Tuesday, Viber...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 21, 2016
It takes at least a master's degree to fully understand synthetic biology, but grasping its importance requires far less.Wired From ACM Opinion | April 12, 2016
As Apple Battled the FBI for the last two months over the agency's demands that Apple help crack its own encryption, both the tech community and law enforcement...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2016
This week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) created a potentially dangerous precedent when it indicted seven Iranian hackers involved in attacks on the US financial...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2016
On the eve of his company’s court date with the FBI, where it will defend its right to not weaken the security of its own devices, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 22, 2016
Are Apple and other tech companies somehow against America's national security if they create uncrackable encryption software that government investigators or even...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 29, 2016
The news this week that a magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects has polarized the nation—and...Wired From ACM News | February 19, 2016
It's taken more than a decade, but a critical oversight board tasked with advising the president on the privacy and civil liberties implications of the NSA's surveillance...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 17, 2016
The end of White House terms are often about trying to shape historic legacies, and President Obama is out to build his in the new area of cybersecurity.Wired From ACM Opinion | February 11, 2016
When digital dystopians and critics of Internet libertarians need a rhetorical dart board, they often pull out a document written by John Perry Barlow, co-founder...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 8, 2016