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Chilling Scenarios That Keep Privacy and Security Experts Up at Night
It’s a dark reality of the digital age: Every year, security breaches, privacy hacks, and other forms of cyber warfare get more frequent, more invasive, and leave more destruction in their wake. Last...
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Lorrie Faith Cranor: Digital Privacy Is Out of Control
The notion of privacy is something we once took for granted. Aside from the Walter Whites of the world, it was safe to assume that our phones weren’t being tapped, our consumption habits weren’t being...
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Heat and Geeks: Can This Unlikely Duo Restore Community Trust?
An unusual collaboration between the Seattle Police Department and local hackers could go a long way in dampening the tinderbox of distrust that is harming the relationship between cops and communities...
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5 Numbers That Explain Why STEM Diversity Matters to All of Us
The ongoing debate about the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) diversity dilemma has a pretty low signal-to-noise ratio: Despite the constant stream of TED Talks, books, blog posts,...
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Bruce Schneier on Privacy and the Data Free-for-All
Over the past two decades, few voices have shouted louder from the rooftops about global cybersecurity and digital privacy concerns than Bruce Schneier. He’s the CTO of Resilient Systems, a board...
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Is This Planned Ghost Town the City of the Future?
At the end of a six-mile road in a dry valley in southern New Mexico, researchers are building a first-of-its-kind testing ground for the future. Here among the cottonwoods and coyotes, they are...
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Does Tech Need a Culture Shock?
Leading scientists and designers are pushing for more racial, gender and geographic diversity in tech research and development. Only then will we create technology that reflects who we all are....
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Sugata Mitra: Learn to Think Like a Kid
In 1999, educator Sugata Mitra and some colleagues cut a hole in the wall of a vast New Delhi slum and installed a personal computer with Internet access. Then they left it there unattended. Within...
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This Month’s #MakeTechHuman Debate: Global Cybersecurity
This month on #maketechhuman, we’re throwing a mammoth question at a handful of leading global experts in cybersecurity: At the beginning of this new age in AI, robotics, machine learning, and the...
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Why Nokia enables #maketechhuman
The world has changed in the last century and a half, but our DNA remains the same. We are and have always been thinking about what technology really means for people. It’s why we exist: to expand the...
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CIA Cybersecurity Guru Dan Geer Doesn’t Use a Cell Phone
Why doesn’t cybersecurity icon Dan Geer carry a cell phone? If he doesn’t understand how something works in detail, he says, he won’t use it. Yet he’s no Luddite: as chief information security officer...
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Dan Geer’s 10 Cybersecurity Best Practices
In his keynote last year at the Black Hat USA conference, Dan Geer proposed 10 policy recommendations he thinks will make the digital world a much safer one. Here’s a much-condensed version of his...
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3 Privacy Tradeoffs That Might Be Worth It
Consumers make Faustian bargains with technology every day, sharing private information in exchange for some personal (or occasionally social) benefit. Sometimes the tradeoff doesn’t require a second...
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DAN ARIELY, YVES BEHAR AND RODNEY BROOKS ON WHAT DONUTS AND GOOGLE MAPS HAVE...
Last Friday was National Donut Day– only in America, right? Imagine our surprise when Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and author of Predictably Irrational, identified donuts as the technology(!) he is...
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‘Oh Kiss My Ass, That’s Not True': Stewart Baker Calls Out Cyber-Surveillance...
In his book Skating on Stilts, former US Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Policy Stewart Baker examines the numerous ways—air travel, biotech, the Internet—that America has left...
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Global Solution Networks: An Emerging Alternative to Governments?
In Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch works to free bloggers who were arrested on politically motivated charges. Throughout India and Brazil, the nonprofit Medicines for Malaria Venture fights a disease that...
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A Global Rx for Tackling Rare Diseases
Wonder what it costs to get that little pink pill in your prescription bottle? About the same as building the sprawling 2,400-room Wynn Las Vegas casino. The cost of developing a prescription drug that...
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Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin: Privacy Needs to Be the Default, Not an Option
Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin has a wake-up call for the world’s digital citizens: Beware of the tech giants lurking behind your screens and keyboards. Falque-Pierrotin—current head of France’s CNIL...
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Barry French: ‘Technology May Actually Enable Humans to Survive’
Technology may change in the wink of an eye, but the core values upon which a company is built can keep the turbulence of constant transformation manageable. Nokia, the Finland-based mobile technology...
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ICYMI: June’s #maketechhuman Debate Tackled Google, NSA, and Cyberwarfare
Great technology always seems to weave its way seamlessly into our lives without us giving it a second thought. We originally adopted smartphones with no sense of the life-altering conveniences they’d...
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