Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency's reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the United...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 6, 2014
Last month two judges issued two different opinions about the NSA's controversial bulk metadata collection program.Slate From ACM Opinion | January 2, 2014
While we're all wiping the champagne-induced sleep from our eyes, inevitably we have to sober up for 2014.ArsTechnica From ACM Opinion | January 2, 2014
Five years ago, the DJI Phantom 2 Vision would have seemed like a science fiction film prop or a piece of surveillance hardware flown only by the sexiest of superspies...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 2, 2014
By now, most people have heard of Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer currency whose value has soared over the past couple of years.The Washington Post From ACM News | December 30, 2013
Turn an ordinary table into a touch screen, monitor your kids' whereabouts, and place the power of 3D printing in the palm of your hand—and there’s more.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | December 30, 2013
One of the dangers of a 304 -page report on a complex subject is that everyone gets to choose what he or she thinks is the bottom line.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | December 30, 2013
In defending the NSA's telephony metadata collection efforts, government officials have repeatedly resorted to one seemingly significant detail: This is just metadata—numbers...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
This is going to sound silly, but I think Snapchat was the most important technology of 2013.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
Right now, the average person's data footprint—the annual amount of data produced worldwide, per capita—is just a little short of one terabyte.Newsweek From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
A proposal to address the problem of too many conference submissions and not enough time for reviewers to carefully evaluate each one.Doug Terry From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2014
A couple of weeks ago, shortly after the Amazon C.E.O. Jeff Bezos unveiled, on "60 Minutes," that his company plans to deliver packages to customers with a swarm...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | December 23, 2013
It's a good bet that, in the next few weeks, President Obama will impose some serious reforms—and ask Congress to enact a few more—on how the National Security...Slate From ACM Opinion | December 20, 2013
Theodor Holm Nelson, who coined the term hypertext, has been a thorn in the side of the computing establishment for more than a half century.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 18, 2013
Federal Judge Richard Leon has become a sudden political celebrity after his remarkable opinion holding that antiterror surveillance is unconstitutional and, even...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 18, 2013