Wikipedia editors got locked in a dispute several months ago about the biographical summary boxes that sit atop some pages of the online encyclopedia. The tiff...The Wall Street Journal From ACM News | May 7, 2018
China has its own great firewall. Turkey has been blocking swaths of the internet, including YouTube, for at least a decade.
Newsweek From ACM News | May 3, 2018
Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 13 members of an...The New York Times From ACM News | April 27, 2018
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will change how companies and individuals collect, store and share data.
BBC News From ACM News | April 25, 2018
Recent controversy over Facebook Inc.'s hunger for personal data has surfaced the notion that the online advertising industry could be hazardous to our privacy...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2018
Google's heavy investment in artificial intelligence has helped the company's software write music and beat humans at complex board games. What unlikely feats could...Wired From ACM News | April 18, 2018
Next month, a comprehensive new data protection law goes into effect in the European Union, placing greater requirements on how companies like Facebook and Google...The New York Times From ACM News | April 9, 2018
A cold war is being waged across the world's most advanced industries. And it just got a lot chillier.
The New York Times From ACM News | March 26, 2018
Last week, when news broke (again) that Cambridge Analytica had allegedly misused 50 million Facebook users' data, it immediately raised a difficult question: When...Wired From ACM News | March 23, 2018
Consumers have long wondered just what Google and Facebook know about them, and who else can access their personal data. But internet giants have little incentive...Wired From ACM News | March 19, 2018
As the United States and China look to protect their national security needs and economic interests, the fight between the two financial superpowers is increasingly...The New York Times From ACM News | March 12, 2018
What if the scourge of false news on the internet is not the result of Russian operatives or partisan zealots or computer-controlled bots? What if the main problem...The New York Times From ACM News | March 9, 2018
Five years ago, US law enforcement served Microsoft a search warrant for emails as part of a US drug trafficking investigation. In response, Microsoft handed over...Wired From ACM News | February 27, 2018
Computer software can now quickly detect duplicate images across large swathes of the research literature, three scientists say.
Nature From ACM News | February 23, 2018
One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia released hundreds of posts taking...The New York Times From ACM News | February 21, 2018
One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.
Wired From ACM News | February 14, 2018
Over the past two months, Google has started letting people around the world choose what data they want to share with its various products, including Gmail and...The New York Times From ACM News | January 29, 2018