Papers, Please! writes: Ismail B. Ajjawi, a Palestinian freshman admitted to Harvard College, arrived at Logan Airport in Boston last Friday, Lebanese passport and US student visa in hand. But after Mr. Ajjawai complied with demands by US customs and immigration officers at the airport to unlock his cellphone and laptop, the officers read what…
Month: August 2019
Medical Data De-Identification Is Under Attack
David Talby writes how scientists are getting closer to complete re-identification of supposedly de-identified data. He writes, in part: Getting Closer To Complete Re-identification June 2019 has posed two attacks on this long-time status quo: a technical one and a legal one. The technical attack came via a paper published in Nature which shows how…
EFF Sues DHS To Uncover Information About Border Agents Using GPS Devices Without a Warrant To Track Vehicles
The following is a press release from EFF: Washington, D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its component agencies today to obtain information about the agencies’ warrantless use of global positioning system (GPS) devices to track vehicles entering the U.S. In 2012, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in a…
Primary school to use AI to monitor students
Cao Siqi and Xu Keyue report: A primary school in Shanghai is planning to build an artificial intelligence (AI) technology system to monitor and analyze student behavior including extra attention for details such as smiling or yawning. Chinese experts, however, warned the application could violate student privacy and even contribute to personality disorders. Minhang Qiangwei…