Technology will soon make officials at high-level sports events as obsolete as elevator operators, their skill set as useful as knowing how to make a wood tennis...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | February 18, 2014
Glenn Greenwald is back reporting about the NSA, now with Pierre Omidyar's news organization FirstLook and its introductory publication, The Intercept.The Atlantic From ACM News | February 12, 2014
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...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 6, 2014
How does the NSA get the private crypto keys that allow it to bulk eavesdrop on some email providers and social networking sites?Wired From ACM Opinion | February 3, 2014
The White House announced via blog post on Thursday that it's forming working group focused on understanding the promises and pitfalls of big data (with a heavy...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | January 24, 2014
The world's most famous former intelligence contractor, Edward Snowden, is scheduled to answer questions posted on Twitter in an hour-long Webcast on Thursday.CNET From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2014
Few critics of the NSA will find much satisfaction in President Obama's speech this morning or in the set of reforms that he announced.Slate From ACM Opinion | January 21, 2014
Back in 2003, when he was a law professor at the University of Virginia, Tim Wu wrote the definitive paper on net neutrality.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2014
An "Open Internet" became endangered this week at a time when the U.S. increasingly relies on Internet services to deliver everything from education to entertainment...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2014
A federal appeals court in Washington slapped the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday for overstepping its legal authority by trying to regulate Internet...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2014
My expectations were low when I asked the National Security Agency to cooperate with my story on the impact of Edward Snowden’s leaks on the tech industry.Wired From ACM Opinion | January 15, 2014
My Washington Post colleagues have reported on a National Security Agency program to to build a quantum computer.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 13, 2014
Last month, several people appeared before a U.S. Senate committee to defend bitcoin, among them Patrick Murck, general counsel of the Bitcoin Foundation...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | December 26, 2013
To avoid surveillance, the first four Americans to visit Edward Snowden in Moscow carried no cell phones or laptops.Time From ACM Opinion | December 12, 2013
At a wine bar in San Francisco on Wednesday, Broadcom Chairman and CTO Henry Samueli delivered some sobering news: Moore's Law isn't making chips cheaper anymore...Computerworld From ACM Opinion | December 6, 2013
When you clicked on the link to read this article, your computer, tablet or phone sent a request that traveled hundreds or perhaps thousands of miles at the speed...Smithsonian magazine From ACM Opinion | December 3, 2013