
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.

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.
(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]
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]
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]
Bob Sullivan