Category: Blogs

By: Brenna Hoffman and Aspen Runkel The crime rate in a portion of a city has gone up. In order to improve the safety of her employees and customers, a business owner of an electronic store decides to install a “smart” security system equipped with facial recognition. This security system has a built-in function to […]

By Sara Thompson and Kathryn Puczkowskyj At-home DNA tests were all the rage when people realized that these self-administered kits could find out their ancestry, understand their allergies, or locate long-lost relatives. These tests enable individuals to make informed personal decisions by taking control of their genetic information. The DNA collected by testing companies can […]

By: Jordan McNea and Apsara Rodriguez A new company threatens privacy in a way that has never been seen before. Clearview AI is an astonishing new technology company which offers a groundbreaking facial recognition app that has scraped three billion images from social media and across the internet. Law enforcement agencies in the United States […]

By: Michael Schwartz and Alistair Bernhard With the recent explosion of data collection by businesses looking to more effectively target their consumer bases, privacy has been an area of increasing importance. While many people often do not give a second thought to posting personally identifiable information to social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, it’s […]

By: Taylor Toepke & Ross Stokes In 2017, an anonymous user of Redditor posted a video of Scarlett Johansson in compromising sexual situations, creating one of the first exposures to deepfake. After videos of famous celebrities “appeared” in pornographic videos from the use of face stitching, researchers went to work and were able to create […]

By: Alexis Campestre & Austin Bankston Radio frequency identification (RFID) refers to an automated data collection technology that uses radio frequency waves to transfer data between a reader and a tag to identify, track and locate a tagged item.[1] There are two main types of RFID sensors: active and passive. Active RFIDs typically have an […]

By: Taylor Toepke At 3:50 p.m. on the Wednesday after Thanksgiving 2016, Timothy Byrne, a call screener at Pittsburgh’s hotline for child abuse and neglect, decided to key in “Low risk” and “No safety threat” when selecting the likely threat to a child’s immediate safety. This happened after a student told a preschool teacher that […]

By: Sarah Thompson             Covid-19 has altered our world immensely – casting a net of uncertainty that holds us in a state of eerie permanence. Cradled in captivity, many of us are waiting for the world to return to normal, occupying ourselves in the meantime by organizing our closets or sewing N95 masks for local […]

By: Alexis Campestre Throughout human history there has been a battle for information in every domain of human interaction, whether on the literal battlefield, or pricing risk in the insurance markets. The better insight information provides, the better decisions that are made. It was during the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, in which […]

By: Kathryn Puczkowskyj Imagine a day when all of your health information is fully integrated. Your history – each doctor’s visit, test, lab, or physical complaint – is stored in one location where any healthcare provider you see has access to it. You are saving money on testing, and your doctor is not limited to […]