|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. The Times Privacy Project obtained one such files.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
A new law would give the country’s 1.3 billion people more power over data collected by companies but allow the government to exempt itself from the rules.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Dorsey’s account began posting racial epithets, profanities and bomb threats. A company spokesman confirmed it was hacked.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Private groups - like the one used by students whose Harvard acceptances were recently rescinded - may offer a false sense of confidence.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
China's genetic research on ethnic minorities raises concerns by the global scientific community, who fear that the government may be using this information to spy on and oppress people.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Hackers launched a cyber attack on the government of Lake City, Florida, disabling the city's computer systems for several days. After working with the FBI they reluctantly paid the ransom. This is just one of a series of ransomware attacks in Florida.
|| Professional Ethics || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
If Apple's employees refused to help the F.B.I. access the contents of an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, their decision would be supported by the Association for Computing Machinery.