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Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

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Cornell expert on need for cell phone data collection guidelines

December 7, 2023

A letter from Senator Ron Wyden to the Justice Department has revealed that the U.S. and some foreign governments have been secretly requesting push notification records from Google and Apple to track people of interest.

Law, Government & Public Policy
Computing & Information Sciences

X biometrics collection: Cornell experts on fighting bots, privacy

August 31, 2023

Social media platform X plans to collect user biometric, employment, and education data as a matter of policy. 

Computing & Information Sciences
science
Engineering

Rumored iPhone 13 updates may reduce the digital divide

September 3, 2021

Stephen Wicker says iPhones that can directly connect to the internet will greatly reduce the digital divide and increase competition in a marketplace currently dominated by the duopoly of cable and ADSL.

Physical Sciences & Engineering

‘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

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

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

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 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

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.


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

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