Current events related to our course
Pre-SOTU proposal connected to our course:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/us/politics/obama-to-call-for-laws-covering-data-hacking-and-student-privacy.html
We talked about 3-D printers, check this out:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/13/7539341/3d-printed-car-local-motors-strati-naias-2015
The whole Unabomber story:
http://www.cornellcollege.edu/cornell-report/issues/2009-summer/article2/sidebar-unabomber.shtml
Wire-tapping Supreme Court decisions related to the 4th Amendment-- The key decisions are Olmstead and Katz, which reversed Olmstead.
http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/get-involved/constitution-activities/fourth-amendment/wiretaps-cell-phone-surveillance/facts-case-summary.aspx
That Justice Scalia and the right to privacy story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/technology/internet/18link.html?_r=0
NYT article of bulk collection of phone data (1/15/15):
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/us/politics/report-finds-no-alternative-to-bulk-collection-of-phone-data.html?_r=0
Looks like the DEA was doing it too:(1/17/15)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/us/dea-kept-telephone-records-on-americans-justice-department-says.html?_r=0
Darknet and encryption come up in this story (1/21/15)
https://news.vice.com/article/prosecutors-in-silk-road-trial-present-damning-evidence-from-ross-ulbrichts-computer?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
IP theft by hackers this week (1/22/15)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/arts/music/when-music-is-purloined-artists-try-to-exploit-opportunity.html?_r=0
Shopping during class
http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2015/01/21/students-are-welcome-to-shop-online-during-my-lectures/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Stephen Hawking on the risk of AI
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540
Lots of NYT articles as our class wraps up
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/world/president-tweaks-the-rules-on-data-collection.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/technology/in-net-neutrality-push-fcc-is-expected-to-propose-regulating-the-internet-as-a-utility.html?hpw
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/opinion/charles-blow-a-future-segregated-by-science.html