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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Let’s continue with some items that might have gotten missed over Maine’s lovely summer ranging from computers that can identify trees to a new Kuwaiti law requiring all citizens and foreign residents to provide a sample of their DNA to a central government database.
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Time for a look at some of the stories in the digital world we may have missed while sitting on the beach or paddling a canoe over the summer, ranging from clothing that will charge our smartphones to voting machines running an insecure operating system.
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Ever hear of “the right to be forgotten?” If you haven’t yet, you probably will. Just what is “the right to be forgotten?” How does it work? What might it mean for our world today – and tomorrow?
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Ever wonder what we are afraid of as a society? Researchers at Chapman University did, and they set out to find out in a 2015 survey. The results indicate once again how much our digital and physical lives are becoming intertwined. If you’d like to look into the results yourself, head on over to www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/research-centers/babbie-center/survey-american-fears.aspx
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
These days, there are lots of ways besides cookies that companies are using to track us as we move around the Web. A recent research paper refers to these new tracking tools as “fingerprinting.” Here’s how some of them work. If you’d like to see just how your computer can be identified by some of these tools, go to panopticlick.eff.org. You will probably be surprised – and maybe dismayed.
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Encryption has been a big concern of law enforcement and other government agencies of late. We’ve heard the FBI director and others worry about bad people “going dark.” What do computer experts have to say about encryption and efforts to outlaw it? Here are some opinions.
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
We all know we are being tracked as we move about the web. Now a new study shows just how many tracking efforts there are on the web – 81,000+! Bad news! But the researchers found some (relatively) good news as well. Here’s why…
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Producer/Host: Jim Campbell
Think the big difference between computers and humans is that people can judge what other people’s personalities are like? Think again. And be careful what you “Like” on the web. Here’s why…
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