User Control Could Fix the Privacy Problem
User identity is broken on social networks. Biometric data about people, protected by encryption, could return the balance of power to where it belongs—with consumers.
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Will Your Next Password Be a Brainwave?
Secure internet authentication with today's technology is more and more difficult. Even two-factor authentication is not enough. But at UC Berkeley, the next frontier in biometrics-based security is emerging: meet passthoughts—your brainwaves as an identifier,...
“Good Hackers” Gather in Washington to Help Besieged Journalists
Developers, activists, and journalists gathered in a Washington startup incubator on a recent weekend for “FreedomHack,” to build digital products to aid citizen journalists in Mexico. Reporters Without Borders reports that a skyrocketing number of...
