News Category: General
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News at Northeastern
The evolving laws and rules around privacy, data security, and robots
- September 18, 2017
Woodrow Hartzog, who joined Northeastern’s faculty this fall, studies the problems that arise when personal information is collected using new technologies. “Information is power, and when other people collect it they have power over us and that leaves us vulnerable,” he says. -
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News at Northeastern
The Equifax hack and ‘virtual certainty’ of future cybertheft
- September 12, 2017
Associate Professor William Robertson answers questions and offers additional advice for consumers regarding the Equifax hack. -
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News at Northeastern
No one knew just how many Ubers and Lyfts were out there. Until now
- July 26, 2017
New research by Northeastern associate professor Alan Mislove and assistant professor Christo Wilson pulls back the curtain on the density of Uber and Lyft vehicles in San Francisco. -
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General News at NortheasternWhat loss of net neutrality could mean for consumers, content providers
- July 17, 2017
David Choffnes, assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science, released a novel Android app for detecting traffic differentiation in mobile networks in 2015. We asked him to explain the ins and outs of net neutrality and how its loss could impact consumers and internet companies alike.