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Facebook’s ’10 Year Challenge’ is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?
Internet

Facebook’s ’10 Year Challenge’ is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?

Posted on January 16, 2019January 16, 2019 by Michael Sauers

Imagine that you wanted to train a facial recognition algorithm on age-related characteristics and, more specifically, on age progression (e.g., how people are likely to…

Friday Video: Phil Zimmermann: “Communications Security” | Talks at Google
Tech

Friday Video: Phil Zimmermann: “Communications Security” | Talks at Google

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Michael Sauers

Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP and Silent Phone is our guest at Google, talking about communications security. How large scale deployments of end-to-end secure…

Politics & Law

Friday Video: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Encryption

Posted on March 25, 2016March 21, 2016 by Michael Sauers
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance
Politics & Law

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Michael Sauers

There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss…

Securing Yourself with LastPass
Tech

Securing Yourself with LastPass

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Here’s the video of my LastPass presentation from the Nebraska Library Association Conference presented on 10 October 2014.

NYC theater overrules MPAA rating for Snowden documentary
Politics & Law

NYC theater overrules MPAA rating for Snowden documentary

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Michael Sauers

I saw Citizenfour last weekend and I’m at a loss as to why this film was rated R. At least one theatre felt the same…

Why Librarians Are Defending Your Right to Watch Porn at the Library
Libraries

Why Librarians Are Defending Your Right to Watch Porn at the Library

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Michael Sauers

The ALA published a rep​ort investigating the use of filters and found they were disproportionately blocking out left-leaning views on issues such as gay marriage…

Politics & Law

Friday Video: Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden

Posted on November 14, 2014November 12, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden at Harvard Law School on Oct. 20.

Update now: Adobe Digital Editions secured data transfers
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Update now: Adobe Digital Editions secured data transfers

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Michael Sauers

Adobe came under fire a few weeks ago when news was brought to light that critical user data was being sent to their servers from…

Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy
Politics & Law

Privacy under attack: the NSA files revealed new threats to democracy

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Michael Sauers

This is from May but I’m a bit behind in some of my reading. However it is worth every moment you’ll spend reading it. A…

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