Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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Hacks of Valor
Over the past year, the U.S. government has begun to think of Anonymous, the online network phenomenon, as a threat to national security.
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How China Steals Our Secrets
For the last two months, senior government officials and private-sector experts have paraded before Congress and described in alarming terms a silent threat: cyberattacks...
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Web Privacy Rules Turn Poachers into Gamekeepers
When you "like" something on Facebook or read an online newspaper, perhaps a dozen or more companies are squirreling away data on your tastes, your habits, whether...
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Cyber and Drone Attacks May Change Warfare More Than the Machine Gun
Information technology is changing the way nations wage war, with philosophical and ethical perspectives struggling to keep pace with those changes.
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Vint Cerf Attacks European Internet Policy
Mr. Cerf, often called the father of the Internet, said that the so-called "right to be forgotten" online was "not possible to achieve."
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Cyber and Drone Attacks May Change Warfare More Than the Machine Gun
From state-sponsored cyberattacks to autonomous robotic weapons, 21st century war is increasingly disembodied.
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The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the Ftc's New Approach to Privacy
A mile or two away from Facebook's headquarters in Silicon Valley, Helen Nissenbaum of New York University was standing in a basement on Stanford's campus explaining...
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Dns Changer
One fine night in November 2011 I got an opportunity to get my hands dirty, working on a project for the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack
The story Richard Clarke spins has all the suspense of a postmodern geopolitical thriller.
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Your Privacy Is a Sci-Fi Fantasy
The assault on personal privacy has ramped up significantly in the past few years. From warrantless GPS tracking to ISP packet inspection, it seems that everyone...
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A National Id Card that Protects Voting Rights
In December, the U.S. Department of Justice intervened under the Voting Rights Act to stay a South Carolina voter ID law.
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Is Human Mobility Tracking a Good Idea?
Considering the trade-offs associated with human mobility tracking.
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Improving Gender Composition in Computing
Combining academic and industry representation, the NCWIT Pacesetters program works to increase the participation of girls and women in computing.
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Information Technology and Gross National Happiness
Connecting digital technologies and happiness.
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Can Services and Platform Thinking Help the U.S. Postal Service?
How the U.S. Postal Service might improve the efficiency of its delivery platform.
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Dangerously Vague Cybersecurity Legislation Threatens Civil Liberties
There is a spate of proposed cybersecurity legislation working its way through the House and Senate. The bills are aimed primarily at facilitating cooperation regarding...
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Data Mining and Kids: Thank Goodness She Didn't Pay Cash!
Remember the movie The Minority Report? It is based upon a Philip K. Dick novel of the same name. Well, the movie is supposed to portray an implausible dystopian...
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