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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The Digital Ties That Bind: Love, Loss and Oversharing in the Internet Age
The most serious relationship of my life so far ended last summer without a trace—physically at least.
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How Cybersecurity Laws Are Outdated
Mike McConnell, former director of the National Security Agency and of National Intelligence, talks about the details of the NSA's surveillance program and tells...
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Why Tech Companies and the NSA Diverge on Snowden
Is Edward Snowden a whistleblower or a traitor?
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Tim Berners-Lee: We Need to Re-Decentralise the Web
Twenty-five years on from the web's inception, its creator has urged the public to re-engage with its original design: a decentralised internet that at its very...
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A Creator of Skynet Ponders Google
After an eight-year detour in which he served as governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger has returned to his true calling as a cyborg assassin.
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Snowden Leaks: The Man Who Watches Over the Nsa
Whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations have revealed that a huge capability resides within America's National Security Agency to collect and analyse communications...
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The Case of the Hacked Refrigerator—could 'the Internet of Things' Connect Everything?
Somebody hacked a refrigerator recently, and it could mark a tipping point for civilization.
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Bitcoin: How Its Core Technology Will Change the World
Bitcoin has been called many things, from the future of money to a drug dealer's dream and everything else in between.
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Dropbox Ceo Drew Houston
Dropbox, the popular cloud storage system that lets people drag files to an icon that puts that data in the cloud and sync new versions across multiple devicesHiding...
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Microsoft Ceo Nadella's Top Challenge: Figuring Out Mobile
Microsoft stands at a crossroads when it comes to mobile.
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Judges Poised to Hand .s. Spies the Keys to the Internet
How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites?
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When Big Data Marketing Becomes Stalking
Many of us now expect our online activities to be recorded and analyzed, but we assume the physical spaces we inhabit are different.
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Here's Why Tech Companies' Nsa 'transparency Reports' Are Mostly a Pr Stunt
Technology companies will soon be able to disclose more details about the number of national security orders and requests they receive, according to a joint statement...
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Bitcoin and the Fictions of Money
How should we think about a currency like Bitcoin?
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I See You: The Databases That Facial-Recognition Apps Need to Survive
Privacy concerns have been ignited by "NameTag," a facial-recognition app designed to reveal personal information after analyzing photos taken on mobile devices...
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An Open Letter from .s. Researchers in Cryptography and Information Security
Leading members of the U.S. cryptography and information-security research communities express their outrage over U.S. surveillance practices.
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