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This App Offers Personal Recommendations While Keeping Your Data Private

January 30, 2017February 8, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 1/23/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers developed an app that suggests news stories using locally stored personal data. They are investigating ways to provide services to users without storing…

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Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users

January 11, 2017January 17, 2017 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Bleeping Computer, 1/3/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Cybersecurity researchers recently discovered that ultrasound cross-device tracking (uXDT), in which a web page plays an ultrasound signal that prompts nearby devices to identify themselves…

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Big Data Analytics — Nostradamus of the 21st Century

December 7, 2016December 13, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: Griffith University, 11/30/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers at Griffith University successfully predicted the winner of the 2016 presidential election, including the outcomes in 49 out of 50 states, using data collected from…

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UK Surveillance Law Marks a “Worse Than Scary” Shift

November 30, 2016December 13, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: CNET, 11/29/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The Investigatory Powers Act, recently passed in the UK, will require telecom companies to store records of phone calls and websites visited for up to a…

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Neural Network Learns to Identify Criminals by Their Faces

November 29, 2016December 13, 2016 by Anna Clark

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 11/22/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers from Jiao Tong University in China have applied facial recognition algorithms to guess whether a person has a criminal history based upon their…

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Social Media Companies Rescind Access to Geofeedia

October 25, 2016November 9, 2016 by Anna Clark

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Published By: The Baltimore Sun, 10/11/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have revoked commercial access to their data by social-media analysis company Geofeedia, which had been providing information obtained on their…

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Big Data Help CIA Predict Social Unrest 5 Days Before It Begins

October 10, 2016October 13, 2016 by mmaginniss

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Published By: Tech Times, 10/7/2016 >> View the Article << Summary The CIA and their new Directorate of Digital Innovation are working on "anticipatory intelligence" to predict future events. The Deputy Director says that they can…

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Google Weakens Allo Privacy Promises

September 28, 2016September 28, 2016 by mmaginniss

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Published By: Naked Security, 9/21/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Google's new messaging app, Allo, has been criticized because the default settings provide substantially less privacy than Google had previously announced they would. In part, this…

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Inferring Urban Travel Patterns From Cellphone Data

September 5, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT News, 8/29/2016 Summary: Researchers are using data on the locations people make calls from to model the movement patterns of Boston commuters; the system may replace or supplement surveys of residents. The article…

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How an Algorithm Learned to Identify Depressed Individuals by Studying Their Instagram Photos

August 31, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 8/19/2016 Summary: Researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that achieves 70% recall in identifying depressed individuals by characteristics of their (pre-diagnosis) Instagram photo posts. This is a great example of a…

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How the NSA Snooped on Encrypted Internet Traffic for a Decade

August 24, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Ars Technica, 8/19/2016 Summary: The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been using an exploit in Cisco firewall software to break encryption and spy on traffic in Virtual Privacy Networks (VPNs). In the Internet…

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