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Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
Filippo Gualtiero Blancato| March 1, 2024
You may have thought that if you owned your digital devices, you were allowed to do whatever you like with them.Wired From ACM Opinion | November 3, 2016
During his eight years in office, President Barack Obama has seen hackers grow into a threat no president has faced before.Wired From ACM Opinion | October 13, 2016
Digital devices and software programs are complicated. Behind the pointing and clicking on screen are thousands of processes and routines that make everything work...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 15, 2016
Twenty-five years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee unleashed the World Wide Web, publishing the first public webpage. Well, maybe.Wired From ACM Opinion | August 24, 2016
Rukmini Callimachi is arguably the best reporter on the most important beat in the world. As a New York Times correspondent covering terrorism, her work explores...Wired From ACM Opinion | August 3, 2016
When a police robot killed suspect Micah Johnson in Dallas early Friday morning, it was likely an unprecedented event.Wired From ACM Opinion | July 11, 2016
Both leading up to and during his deadly assault on Orlando night club Pulse, Omar Mateen accessed his Facebook account.Wired From ACM Opinion | June 20, 2016
American airport security has never been something to look forward to, but in the past few weeks, it's attained new levels of misery.Wired From ACM Opinion | May 27, 2016
On May 8, a group of Danish researchers publicly released a dataset of nearly 70,000 users of the online dating site OkCupid, including usernames, age, gender,...Wired From ACM Opinion | May 16, 2016
Last month, WhatsApp, the hugely popular messaging service that Facebook owns, made end-to-end encryption the default for its 1 billion users. On Tuesday, Viber...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 21, 2016
As Apple Battled the FBI for the last two months over the agency's demands that Apple help crack its own encryption, both the tech community and law enforcement...Wired From ACM Opinion | April 11, 2016
This week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) created a potentially dangerous precedent when it indicted seven Iranian hackers involved in attacks on the US financial...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2016
On the eve of his company’s court date with the FBI, where it will defend its right to not weaken the security of its own devices, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the stage...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 22, 2016
Are Apple and other tech companies somehow against America's national security if they create uncrackable encryption software that government investigators or even...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 29, 2016
The news this week that a magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects has polarized the nation—and...Wired From ACM News | February 19, 2016
It's taken more than a decade, but a critical oversight board tasked with advising the president on the privacy and civil liberties implications of the NSA's surveillance...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 17, 2016