“Reverse Location Search Warrant”: A New Personal Data Hoovering Exercise Brought to You by Google
Welcome to reverse location search warrants, yet another technology-enabled violation of your Constitutional rights.
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Cryptocurrency Firms Regularly Lose Codes and Money
Cryptocurrency is more vulnerable to theft and loss than most of its fans want to believe.
Read more...A Serious Green New Deal Would Take Up One-Third of the Economy—Are We Ready for That?
Looking at some of the ramifications of a Green New Deal.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: In Antitrust, Size Isn’t Everything
Simply breaking up monopolies via century-old economic remedies recommended by antitrust doctrine is insufficient if it is not accompanied by a rebalancing of economic power.
Read more...Soros Warns Against AI Promoted Surveillance and Authoritarianism; Singles Out China’s Existing Tools and Ambitions
Soros just designated China’s AI and surveillance ambitions as the #1 enemy to “open societies”. Recall he’s already gone after Facebook and other US tech titans.
Read more...Experts Declare Physician Burnout ‘a Public Health Crisis’ – and Health IT a Significant Pathogen
Electronic health care records continue to be a drag on doctor productivity and the quality of treatment.
Read more...Trump’s Space Force: Nuclear Lunacy
Why Trump’s effort to revive Reagan’s “Star Wars” vaporware increases the risk of nuclear war.
Read more...Why the Green New Deal Is the Stuff of Fantasyland
Why the Green New Deal can’t deliver on its promises.
Read more...CalPERS Fiasco 2: Confidential Member Data at Risk by Letting Company With No Contract Have Access; CalPERS Apparently Still Has No Deal With Any Vendors for Upcoming Elections
How CalPERS gave access to its sensitive member database to a company it barely knew, Votem Corp., with no contractual protection whatsoever. That’s like giving the keys to your house to someone you just met.
Read more...The Economics of Cryptocurrency Pump and Dump Schemes
Quelle surprise! Scammers have cooked up trading schemes to defraud upstanding cryptocurrency users.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Housing Bubble Trouble in Silicon Valley & San Francisco
Housing is going pear-shaped in California tech-land….and you can’t blame it on a tech bust.
Read more...The Return on Information Technology
Using an exceptionally rich firm-level dataset from Belgium, this column finds that large firms benefit more from IT than small firms.
Read more...Kiss What Is Left of Your Medical Data Privacy Goodbye
While you weren’t looking, a full-bore assault on what is left of your medical privacy has been gaining ground.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Nasdaq, “Tech,” & IPOs Are in for Gut-Wrencher
Companies planning IPOs for 2019 must hope that the upcoming year will be like 2000, the last hurrah of the dot-com era.
Read more...Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
What can be done to manage the risks of artificial intelligence?
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