Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Matt Swayne-Penn State University
As concerns about privacy increase for people using mobile apps, new research suggests that trust and engagement may hinge on perceptions about how the app uses personal data and whether it seeks user input before delivering services.
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- Written by: Michael Wade, IMD Business School
The dealings that have been revealed between Cambridge Analytica and Facebook have all the trappings of a Hollywood thriller
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- Written by: Tom Abate-Stanford University
At a time when social network privacy is in the news, new research shows there are more ways than previously realized to reveal certain traits we might be trying to conceal.
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- Written by: Rob Jordan-Stanford University
Buying ethically sourced products is not as straightforward as it might seem, according to the first large-scale analysis of sustainable sourcing practices.
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- Written by: Gerry Everdi, Washington University in St. Louis
Black people, especially women, are more likely to have been unarmed when killed by police than non-blacks, according to a new study of nationwide data.
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- Written by: Frederic Lemieux, George Washington University
The use of lethal force by police officers in Minnesota and Baton Rouge has once again sparked protests over the violent dynamic between citizens and the police
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- Written by: Bruno Buonaguidi, Università della Svizzera italiana
If you are the owner of a credit or a debit card, there is a non-negligible chance that you may be subject to fraud, like millions of other people around the world.
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- Written by: Simon Willmetts, University of Hull
Fictional metaphors matter, and in the battle to safeguard our civil liberties few metaphors matter more than George Orwell’s 1984. Although first published almost 70 years ago, the lasting salience of this most archetypal dystopia is undeniable.
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- Written by: Alex Shashkevich, Stanford University
Police officers consistently use less respectful language with black community members than with white community members, the first systematic analysis of body camera footage shows.
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- Written by: Thao Nelson, Indiana University
Harvard recently rescinded admission offers for some incoming freshmen who participated in a private Facebook group sharing offensive memes.
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- Written by: Ralph Nader
More and more conservatives and liberals, from the halls of Congress to people in communities across the country, are agreeing that the so-called “war on drugs” needs serious rethinking.
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- Written by: Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams
Disruptions reported in at least 74 countries, including Russia, Spain, Turkey, and Japan, with some reports of U.S. infiltration as well
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- Written by: Amul Kalia, Electronic Frontier Foundation
We pay our monthly Internet bill to be able to access the Internet. We don’t pay it to give our Internet service provider (ISP) a chance to collect and sell our private data to make more money.
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- Written by: Donald W. Shriver, BillMoyers.com
The remarkable feature of this judicial sentence was how it clashed conceptually with the customary default question that suffuses our judicial system as a whole
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- Written by: Kate Letheren and Charmaine Glavas, Queensland University of Technology
The tech revolution is coming to advertising. Chatbots are replacing humans, big data threatens our privacy, and the blockchain is linking it all together.
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- Written by: Patrick G. Lee ProPublica
A NASA scientist heading home to the U.S. said he was detained in January at a Houston airport, where Customs and Border Protection officers pressured him for access to his work phone and its potentially sensitive contents.
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- Written by: Jessica Su, Stanford University
As you browse the internet, online advertisers track nearly every site you visit, amassing a trove of information on your habits and preferences.
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- Written by: Kathy Roberts Forde and Bryan Bowman, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The U.S. criminal justice system is driven by racial disparity.
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- Written by: Julia Angwin ProPublica
Every January, I do a digital tune-up, cleaning up my privacy settings, updating my software and generally trying to upgrade my security.
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- Written by: Nika Knight, Common Dreams
Republican legislators are proposing laws that would criminalize nonviolent protest in North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Washington, and Iowa
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- Written by: Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr. and Surya Mattu ProPublica
Facebook has long let users see all sorts of things the site knows about them, like whether they enjoy soccer, have recently moved, or like Melania Trump.
