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The Unexpected Fallout of Iran's Telegram Ban
Seven weeks after Iran's conservative-led judiciary banned the secure communications app Telegram inside the country, Iranians are still reeling from the change. Though Telegram has critics in the security community, it has become wildly popular in Iran over the last few years as a way of communicating, sharing photos and documents, and even doing business. The service is streamlined for mobile devices, and its end-to-end encryption stymies the Iranian government's digital surveillance and censorship regime.
The Man Who Saw the Dangers of Cambridge Analytics Years Ago
In December 2014, John Rust wrote to the head of the legal department at the University of Cambridge, where he is a professor, warning them that a storm was brewing. Rust informed the university that one of the school’s psychology professors, Aleksandr Kogan, was using an app he created to collect data on millions of Facebook users without their knowledge. Not only did the app collect data on people who opted into it, it also collected data on those users’ Facebook friends.
Can Verizon Build a Strong Brand From the Bones of Yahoo and AOL? (Wired)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 06/15/2018 - 14:49The US Should Pay Attention to Foreign Cambridge Analytica Probes (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 06/15/2018 - 10:30Week of June 11 Shows How Hard It Is to Curb Big Tech (Wired)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 06/13/2018 - 18:01The AT&T-Time Warner Merger Is a Done Deal. Now What? (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 06/12/2018 - 19:30The FCC's Net Neutrality Rules Are Dead, but the Fight Isn't
Although net neutrality protections end June 11, don't expect to see huge changes right away.
Google Sets Limits on Its Use of Artificial Intelligence, but Allows Defense Work (Wired)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 06/07/2018 - 14:20Does It Matter If China Beats the US to Build a 5G Network?
Why exactly is it so important for the US to build 5G networks before China? The benefits of 5G are obvious, but today the US doesn't have the fastest home broadband speeds, nor the fastest or most widely available 4G networks, and often lags countries such as Finland, Japan, and South Korea in such metrics. Why would the US's economic strength erode if it's a bit late to the 5G party?