Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
Mega-publishers are saying electronic books do not wear out, but this is not true at all.
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The Push for Stricter Rules for Internet Platforms
Considering the origins, interpretations, and possible changes to Communications Decency Act § 230 amid an evolving online environment.
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Deep Insecurities: The Internet of Things Shifts Technology Risk
The technical resources largely exist to address the risk of a hyperconnected world, but the political, economic, and social impetus is lagging. “The fundamental problem is that companies are interested in getting products to market quickly. The market does not reward security,” Schneier says.
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The Privacy Project
The boundaries of privacy are in dispute, and its future is in doubt. Citizens, politicians and business leaders are asking if societies are making the wisest tradeoffs. The Times is embarking on this monthslong project to explore the technology and where it’s taking us, and to convene debate about how it can best help realize human potential.
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Schneier on Security – “Crypto-Gram” Newsletter
I am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I’ve been writing about security issues on my blog since 2004, and in my monthly newsletter since 1998. I’m a Special Advisor to IBM Security, a fellow and lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a board member of EFF. This personal website expresses the opinions of none of those organizations.
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China’s Computing Ambitions
Communications of the ACM, November 2018
By Elliott Zaagman
“China plans to become the world’s high-tech leader, and quickly. In 2015, the Chinese government’s State Council approved “Made in China 2025,” an initiative designed to position China as a world leader in fields such as robotics, aviation, advanced information technology, and new-energy vehicles in less than a decade. In support of this governmental initiative, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released a three-year action plan to drive growth in areas including smart drones, facial recognition, AI-supported medical diagnosis, speech recognition, and language translation. If successful, the initiative would grow China’s AI industry to a size of $150 billion by 2020, approximately 100 times its size in 2016. As China pushes AI forward, here are a few names, trends, and technologies to watch.”
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Weighing the Impact of GDPR
Communications of the ACM, November 2018
By Samuel Greengard
“When the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018, it represented the most sweeping effort yet to oversee the way businesses collect and manage consumer data. The law, established to create consistent data standards and protect EU citizens from potential privacy abuses, sent ripples—if not tidal waves—across the world.”
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Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
“From driverless cars to smart thermostats, from autonomous stock-trading systems to drones equipped with their own behavioral algorithms, the internet now has direct effects on the physical world..”
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