Month: October 2018
Do We Need To Teach Ethics And Empathy To Data Scientists?
Standing between a safe and privacy-first web and an Orwellian online dystopia is the empathy and ethics of those creating…
Should Social Media Be Responsible For Illegal Ads On Their Platforms?
The pinpoint targeting of social media ads allows for for one-click discrimination, but what responsibility do the platforms have for…
WashPost: Go For It, Brian Kilmeade
The Washington Post's Erik Wemple used the Television Explorer to explore trends in how the major networks have covered the…
A Globalized Cloud For A Globalized World
The modern public cloud is increasingly abstracting away the impact of geography, allowing companies to deploy globalized applications without changing…
The Chinese 'Spy Chip' Story Is A Reminder Of How Insecure Our Digital World Really Is
Bloomberg's story of the Chinese government covertly installing 'spy chips' on computers used in major commercial and US Government data…
What Facebook's Address Book Mining Tells Us About Our Privacy
Facebook’s silent practice of mining uploaded address books for contact information on other users reminds us that little has changed…
Will Twitter's New Democratic Policymaking Succeed?
Twitter announces it will involve its users in setting policy, but its inaugural attempt falls short. Instead, we need transparency…
Why Facebook's Breach Shouldn't Turn Us Away From Single Sign On
Facebook's breach raises questions about Single Sign On systems, but if the web embraced Estonia's model of hardware cryptographic identities…
What Facebook's Breach Teaches Us About How It Views Security
Most remarkable about the Facebook story is not that a breach happened, but rather that the company took so long…