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Why Are First Ladies Still Fashion Accessories?

In this era of feminism, why are we still covering first ladies as fashion accessories — are their outfits more…

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RadioLIVE New Zealand Interview About Social Platform Data Collection

Kalev appeared on RadioLIVE in Auckland, New Zealand today to talk about his Forbes pieces relating to all the ways…

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Does AI Truly Learn And Why We Need to Stop Overhyping Deep Learning

As deep learning moves from the lab into production use in mission critical fields from medicine to driverless cars, we…

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What Does It Mean For Social Media Platforms To "Sell" Our Data?

Social media platforms generate much of their revenue through selling targeted advertising based on algorithmically mining every second of their…

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Should Social Media Be Allowed To Profit From Terrorism And Hate Speech?

Social media platforms earn money from terrorism propaganda and recruiting, human trafficking, genocide, hate speech, sexism, racism, suicide, bullying and…

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Why Doesn't Facebook Treat Death With Respect?

Facebook’s Orwellian advertising practices were back in the news this week when the mother of a stillborn child found herself…

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Facebook's Latest Breach Illustrates The Limits Of GDPR

Facebook's nearly two month wait to notify data protection authorities after it became aware of a breach, in spite of…

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Fact-Checkers' Choice: To Be Literal or Contextual?

Far from the objective search for indisputable truth, fact checking involves myriad tradeoffs and decisions that can have a tremendous…

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As French Protests Grow, Media's Climate Focus Shrinks

A look at how the media narrative on the French protests has shifted to deemphasize their climate change origins as…

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Investor's Business Daily Editorial Discusses RealClearPolitics Analysis of Media's Trump Obsession

Investor's Business Daily ran an editorial piece today exploring in more detail the RealClearPolitics analysis of the media's obsession with…

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Incorporating Spatial Analysis And Big Data In International Relations Studies And Conflict Research

Kalev spoke today at the Incorporating Spatial Analysis And Big Data In International Relations Studies And Conflict Research conference in Jerusalem…

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It's Today's Data Industry We Should Fear Not Tomorrow's Facial Recognition

We have fixated on facial recognition as the Orwellian technology of our times because it is the most high-tech and…

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The AI Revolution That Was And Wasn't In 2018

AI has transformed audiovisual recognition, given us new tools for understanding language and offered algorithms that possess glimmers of intuition,…

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Reinventing Spycraft, Democracy And Identity In The Digital Era

Will the intelligence community reinvent itself for the digital era, exploiting the seams of the online world to construct new…

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Why Spies Need To Think Low Tech To Communicate Securely Online

One of the great failures of the intelligence community in the digital era has been its overreliance, overconfidence and overeagerness…

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Measuring the Media's Obsession With Trump

A sobering look at the sheer magnitude of the media's incredible obsession with Trump. Read The Full Article.

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Facebook Still Doesn't Understand What Privacy Means

Zuckerberg’s stance on user data is an Orwellian commodification of the most personal and intimate digital lives of its two…

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We Really Are Just Data For Sale In Facebook's Eyes

The Six4Three emails paint a startling image of a for-profit behemoth run amok, single-mindedly focused on expanding, extracting and monetizing…

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Social Media Platforms Are Still Powerless To Stop Data Misuse

If the social platforms still can’t reign in unauthorized commercial use of their platforms and misuse of user data in…

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Even George H.W. Bush's Death Is About The Donald

The media's obsession globally with all things Trump runs so deeply that even coverage of Bush 41's death was reframed…

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The Marriott Breach Reminds Us How Valuable Hotel Data Is To Spies

The recent massive Marriott breach offers a stark reminder of just how much intimate data about us is stored in…

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Why Australia's New Anti-Encryption Law Would Be Both Dangerous And Useless

Weakening encryption would actually benefit terrorists and criminals who would quickly adapt and leverage the decreased security environment, while the…

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Chicago Tribune Summarizes RealClearPolitics Big Tech And Democracy Commentary

Page 13 of today's print edition of the Chicago Tribune includes an excerpted summary of the RealClearPolitics commentary "The Perils…

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20th Annual University Of Illinois Web Conference Keynote

Kalev will be one of the three keynotes of the 20th Annual University Of Illinois Web Conference Keynote being held on…