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“In Conversation”

A set of “email” dialogs on the most important technology issues of the day with the nation’s leading scholars. Sponsored by the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy and the Keenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.

"In Conversation"

What’s it really like to negotiate with ransomware gangs?

September 24, 2020 Bob Sullivan 2

  (FBI image) INTRODUCTION It might be the worst-kept secret in all of cybersecurity: the FBI says don’t pay ransomware gangs. But corporations do it all the time, sending millions every year in Bitcoin to recover data that’s been taken “hostage.” Sometimes, federal agents even help victims find experienced virtual ransom [Keep reading]

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In Conversation: NYT’s Kashmir Hill, and learning to live with facial recognition

September 8, 2020 Bob Sullivan 0

Introduction “Privacy tends to lose when there is a clear public safety use case.” That means firms like Clearview AI, and everything else like it, is here to stay. Now what? That’s today’s “In Conversation.” Earlier this year, Kashmir Hill of The New York Times broke one of the most important [Keep reading]

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Is smartphone contact tracing doomed to be a privacy killer? Or can tech really help?

July 21, 2020 Bob Sullivan 5

An app that tells you if you were exposed to someone with Covid? Sounds great. But, as usual, tech-as-silver-bullet ideas come full of booby-traps. There’s been a lot of scattershot discussion around smartphone contact tracing during the past several months, with privacy advocates saying the harms far outweigh the benefits, [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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