Tip Sheets

Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Cornell experts on coronavirus - Societal impact

May 12, 2020

COVID-19 presents challenges not only to public health but also to the way our societies function. Social distancing, remote work and businesses closures are changing the way we communicate with each other and posing important questions about how to protect under served populations and overall mental health. 

Erin York Cornwell
Professor in Cornell University’s Department of Government
David Little
Jonathan Lunine
Jamila Michener
Anthony Ong
associate professor in the Government
Karl Pillemer
Professor Rooks is an associate professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Qi Wang
Art Wheaton
Stephen Wicker

Personal data a target for exploitation as COVID-19 forces more users online

March 18, 2020

Stephen Wicker, an expert in information network privacy issues, comments on online privacy and surveillance as COVID-19 forces more users online.

Physical Sciences & Engineering
Stephen Wicker

‘Omnipresent surveillance’: Facial recognition may transform schools into prisons

February 10, 2020

Stephen Wicker, an expert in information network privacy issues, comments on Lockport City School District becoming the first district in New York state to adopt facial recognition technology to monitor who is on school grounds.

Physical Sciences & Engineering
Stephen Wicker

Net neutrality law to end the strangulation of startups, innovation

March 11, 2019

Cornell University engineering professor Stephen Wicker is an expert in internet and wireless communication, and says that proposed net neutrality legislation is important for fostering innovation and protecting small companies.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Law and Policy
Computing & Information Sciences
Stephen Wicker

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
Stephen Wicker

FCC’s net neutrality proposal amounts to ‘forced consumption’ for consumers

November 27, 2017

Federal regulators plan to roll back stricter net neutrality rules, giving Internet providers the ability to determine the websites and online services their customers can access. Privacy expert Steve Wicker criticizes the latest move.

Stephen Wicker

FCC’s net neutrality proposal amounts to ‘forced consumption’ for consumers

November 21, 2017

Stephen Wicker, engineering professor, says that by repealing net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission empowers a small number of already large firms to control how and at what cost consumers access internet content.

Engineering
Stephen Wicker

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
Stephen Wicker