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Cornell tech policy experts on TikTok ban

February 28, 2023

The White House has told federal agencies they have 30 days to remove TikTok from all government-issued devices. The following Cornell University experts are available to discuss the ban and its implications.

Cybersecurity
Law and Policy
Law, Government & Public Policy

Shift to cloud platforms may help to improve security

October 25, 2021

Cybersecurity experts warn Russia’s premier intelligence agency has launched another campaign to pierce thousands of U.S. government, corporate and think-tank computer networks.

International
Cybersecurity

Experts list: Technology, ethics and a fast changing world

August 23, 2021

Cornell University computing and information science experts are available to weigh in on technology obstacles and opportunities, offering perspectives on ethics, machine learning, computational sustainability, cybersecurity and more.

Computing & Information Sciences

In linking COVID-19 apps, EU to face adoption, privacy risks

October 19, 2020

Sarah Kreps, a surveillance systems and cybersecurity expert at Cornell University, comments on a new system designed to link national COVID-19 tracing apps across the European Union.

Arts and Sciences

Surveillance for health: Safeguards needed as CDC turns to personal data

April 2, 2020

Sarah Kreps, professor of government and expert in surveillance systems and cybersecurity, comments on efforts within the federal government to use data and surveillance to control the spread of the new coronavirus.

Arts and Sciences

Google-Apple contact tracing model gains ground, centralized approach ‘doomed to fail’

April 27, 2020

Sarah Kreps, surveillance systems and cybersecurity expert, comments on emerging approaches to smartphone contact tracing to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

Arts and Sciences

New Apple iOS supports contact tracing — but is meaningless without government adoption

May 20, 2020

Sarah Kreps, surveillance systems and cybersecurity expert, comments on the newly released Apple operating system that supports digital contact tracing.

Arts and Sciences
Cornell Tech
Computing & Information Sciences

In U.S. v. Microsoft, warrant should trump privacy

February 23, 2018

The Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments next week in a case that pits the federal government against Microsoft in a clash over the privacy of emails stored abroad. The case originated in 2013 when Microsoft refused to comply with a federal government warrant requesting access to emails stored in Ireland that were linked to a drug trafficking investigation.

Law and Policy
Engineering
Computing & Information Sciences

WannaCry attack reveals vulnerability and resilience

May 15, 2017

Rebecca Slayton, assistant professor at Cornell University’s Science & Technology Studies Department and an expert on international security and cooperation, comments on the WannaCry cyber-attacks that have spread across 150 countries since Friday. Slayton says the attack shows both the vulnerabilities and resilience of our computer systems.

Cybersecurity
Arts and Sciences

WannaCry attack reveals two troubling ethical lapses

May 15, 2017

Cornell University engineering professor Stephen Wicker has briefed the U.S. government on cyber security, information technology and privacy concerns and is the author of “Cellular Convergence and the Death of Privacy”. Wicker says the NSA and the CIA are engaging in very dangerous and unethical gamesmanship.

Engineering
Cybersecurity

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