Digital Footprints: Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Your Data

The social media behemoth Facebook was already in damage control by the time its 33-year-old chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, testified before Congress in a pair of hearings which began on Tuesday, April 10. The hearings were prompted after it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica — a political consulting firm linked to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential […]

Sexism in Court: Female Attorneys Recall Marcia Clark

By Emily Hamilton “Marcia Clark gets a new hairdo and stuns the courtroom. The District Attorney has never looked more RUFF!” –The National Examiner It was 1994. Heisman winner and NFL Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson had been charged with the brutal slaughtering of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. Instead, America chose […]

Tech Profs: Apple, FBI Battle Highlights Privacy Concerns

By Rachel Blevins The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Monday that it has found an “outside party” to successfully hack the iPhone belonging to a suspect in the San Bernardino shooting. The FBI had earlier gone to court to force Apple Inc. to create software to override the iPhone’s encryption, claiming it was the only […]