The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Department of Education today to protect university students’ right to speak anonymously online, warning that curtailing anonymous speech as part of anti-harassment regulations would not only violate the Constitution but also jeopardize important on-campus activism. “Battling gender and racial harassment and threats on college campuses is vitally important,”…
Category: Online
Why Hotspot Shield’s co-founder puts privacy over profits
You can be a hero for more than just one day. That there are people like David Gorodyansky in the world who are willing to sacrifice profit for keeping the Internet available to everyone is truly inspiring. Zack Whittaker reports: Every time a site goes dark or a connection is lost amid protest, scandal, or revolution,…
Penn State Researchers: Online Privacy Fosters Selfish Decisions
My privacy is worth more to me than yours is. At least, that seems to be the findings of a new study by Penn State researchers. Alexa Lewis reports: On Dec. 14, a team of Penn State researchers reported at the International Conference on Information Systems in Fort Worth, Texas, that people are more concerned…
Algorithms Claim to Hunt Terrorists While Protecting the Privacy of Others
Michael Byrne reports: Computer scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an algorithmic framework for conducting targeted surveillance of individuals within social networks while protecting the privacy of “untargeted” digital bystanders. As they explain in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the tools could facilitate counterterrorism efforts and infectious disease tracking while…