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  • General The Boston Globe

    How to keep data leaks from getting out of hand

    • February 16, 2017
    Many apps give the personal information they collect about you to other companies without explicitly asking your permission. David Choffnes, a computer scientist at Northeastern University, uses a program called ReCon to look for leaky apps. He’s found dozens, including a few that transmit the names, locations, and even passwords of smartphone users without their permission.
  • General TechRepublic

    Google will soon delete apps with no privacy policies from Play Store

    • February 14, 2017
    "I think it is a great thing that Google is putting more focus on users' privacy," said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University. It is especially important in light of past cases in which apps available in the Play Store collected large volumes of sensitive data from users without their knowledge, including the URLs they visited, he added.
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    Graduate Student Hackathon 2017

    • February 7, 2017
    The inaugural Graduate Student Hackathon, HACK NEU 2017, will take place Friday-Saturday February 11-12, 2017 in the classrooms (and hallways!) of the CCIS home base, West Village H. There are a […]
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    Study: Despite Trump’s win, polling is a strong elections predictor globally

    • February 3, 2017
    Leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the majority of polls had Democrat Hillary Clinton edging out Republican Donald Trump. When Trump won, criticism of this quantitative method of predicting elections swiftly took shape. As one Republican strategist noted on election night, “Tonight data died.” Not so, according to a new study led by Northeastern network scientist David Lazer. The study found that national election polls remain a strong indicator of election outcomes. The researchers’ statistical models, which leaned heavily on late polling data and current economic conditions, correctly predicted up to 90 percent of such direct executive elections.
  • February is Matching Gift Month

    • February 3, 2017
    Attention Alumni, Parents, and Community Members–February is Matching Gift Month! Do you work at Google?  Microsoft?  Fidelity? (double match!) Companies of all sizes match gifts to educational institutions.  This means […]

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