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7 laws that will have to change because of blockchain

“Code is law,” as described in Lawrence Lessig’s book ‘Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace’, refers to the idea that computer code has progressively established itself as a predominant way to regulate...

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The potential for blockchain to transform electronic health records

A vexing problem facing health care systems throughout the world is how to share more medical data with more stakeholders for more purposes, all while ensuring data integrity and protecting patient...

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The ‘deep web’ may be 500 times bigger than the normal web. Its uses go well...

The dark web is a hidden portion of the internet that can only be accessed using special software. TOR, or The Onion Router, is a popular anonymous browsing network used to connect to the dark web....

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Alternatives to Facebook

Facebook has been under relentless attack since the Cambridge Analytica scandal in early 2018. Broadcasters and news publishers have declared open season on Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and other...

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How a Bitcoin evangelist made himself vanish, in 15 (not so easy) steps

In October 2017, a SWAT team descended on Jameson Lopp’s house in North Carolina. Someone — it still isn’t clear who — had called the police and falsely claimed that a shooter at the home had killed...

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The best reason for your city to ban facial recognition

  The technology isn’t ready. Society isn’t ready. And the law isn’t ready. This week, San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to bar itself from using facial recognition systems. The city’s...

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The Saudi government is hunting down women who flee the country by tracking...

Soldiers checking the IMEI number of a mobile phone during a regional anti-insurgent operation in Mali. Reuters Saudi Arabia is using military-grade technology to track down the cellphones of women who...

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Revealed: This is Palintir’s top-secret user manual for cops

Motherboard obtained a Palantir user manual through a public records request, and it gives unprecedented insight into how the company logs and tracks individuals. Palantir is one of the most...

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Facebook is funding brain experiments to create a device that reads your mind

Big tech firms are trying to read people’s thoughts, and no one’s ready for the consequences. In 2017, Facebook announced that it wanted to create a headband that would let people type at a speed of...

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The fashion line designed to trick surveillance cameras

Adversarial Fashion garments are covered in license plates, aimed at bamboozling a device’s databases An Adversarial Fashion dress, modeled by the designer, Kate Rose. Automatic license plate readers,...

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Gatwick Airport commits to facial recognition tech at boarding

Gatwick first trialled facial-recognition-based checks at some of its departure gates last year Gatwick has become the UK’s first airport to confirm it will use facial-recognition cameras on a...

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Can the data poor survive?

Will work for data We’ve been running a data science experiment over the past few months. Our first goal was to compare and contrast the amount of data we could actively gather using a link to an...

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The internet is getting less free

A protester holds an Amazon box made into a sad face as part of a protest against the company’s cloud services contracts with Palantir, which supports ICE. Election interference and government...

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Socially aware algorithms are ready to help

Better coding, not just laws and regulations, is the solution for tech’s failure to address the needs of actual humans Calls for stronger government regulation of large technology companies have become...

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There’s a privacy bracelet that jams smart speakers and, hell yeah, bring it

Smart speakers are creepy recording devices that eavesdrop on unsuspecting people. A new piece of custom technology offers the chance to fight back. Stylized as a cyberpunk bracelet, a “wearable...

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Smartphone data reveal which Americans are social distancing (and not)

D.C. gets an ‘A’ while Wyoming earns an ‘F’ for following coronavirus stay-at-home advice, based on the locations of tens of millions of phones  Location data firm Unacast identified places where...

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Coronavirus: Google reveals travel habits during the pandemic

Google is to publicly track people’s movements over the course of the coronavirus pandemic. The tech firm will publish details of the different types of places people are going to on a county-by-county...

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Face masks give facial recognition software an identity crisis

  As tech firms scramble to keep up with reality of coronavirus, some experts say users must change It is an increasingly common modern annoyance: arriving at the front of the queue to pay in a shop,...

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Artificial intelligence will surveil and study released prisoners to “reduce...

A group of researchers is launching a new artificial intelligence led study that will collect data from recently released prisoners. Artificial intelligence applications are popping up everywhere these...

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Using drones to disrupt the status quo

  Drone-based digital imagery can be used to better estimate the size of large crowds. From Standing Rock to Syria, drones are being used to hold the powerful to account. Let’s keep it that way. The...

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