Tesla data helped police after Las Vegas truck explosion, but experts have wider privacy concerns “It reveals the kind of sweeping surveillance going on,” said David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston. “When something bad happens, it’s helpful, but it’s a double edged sword. Companies that collect this data can abuse it.”
Times of India Harvard, California and other US universities that offered courses on pop icon Taylor Swift Northeastern University offered a unique two-day Zoom course led by Catherine Fairfield. Attended by over 500 students, this course delved into the intersection of English literature and gender studies, as reported by USA Today. It examined themes like womanhood, societal expectations of women’s fame and success, and the cultural dynamics Swift highlights in her music.
The Tribune Could Better Security Have Stopped the New Orleans Terror Attack? The city’s design for the new system, which places bollards at strategic distances from utility poles along the sidewalk, would have effectively prevented the truck from both accessing the road and circumventing barriers by going over the sidewalk to reach Bourbon Street, according to Peter Furth, a Northeastern University professor who reviewed the plans.
Is your car spying on you? What it means that Tesla shared data in the Las Vegas explosion “It reveals the kind of sweeping surveillance going on,” said David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston. “When something bad happens, it’s helpful, but it’s a double edged sword. Companies that collect this data can abuse it.”
The Telegraph Young, single men are leaving traditional churches. They found a more ‘masculine’ alternative Dr Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, an assistant professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University, whose research looks at recent Orthodox converts in the US, said that she started seeing an increase in people seeking out Orthodoxy from 2016.
The myth of the mass shooting epidemic Op-ed by James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law, and public policy at Northeastern University and coauthor of “Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder.” He oversees the Associated Press/USA Today/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database.
How tariffs could hurt small businesses in New England And there’s another side to the issue of tariffs: If affected countries retaliate, small businesses that export goods to Canada or Mexico could be hurt as well, said Peter Simon, a professor of economics at Northeastern University.
Forbes If You Can’t Be Replaced, You Can’t Be Promoted Dr. Curtis Odom, an Associate Professor of Management and Organizational Development at Northeastern University in Boston, provides insight on organizational behavior.
Cheap and deadly: Why vehicle terror attacks like the Bourbon Street ramming are on the rise James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University, said that while vehicle rammings remain relatively rare among mass-casualty incidents in the United States, “they can be quite deadly” in contrast to a gun attack.
The Tribune Most of Puerto Rico Is Darkened by New Year’s Eve Blackout The island’s power grid suffered from underinvestment even before the damage caused by Hurricane Maria, said Laura Kuhl, a professor at Northeastern University who has written about energy policies in Puerto Rico.
Christian Science Monitor Massachusetts towns ban nicotine for a generation. Public health win or overreach? “We’re at a level of readiness that is really the envy of most other states,” says Mark Gottlieb, a lawyer who runs Northeastern University’s Public Health Advocacy Institute. “This is a really good place to see where this policy can go.”
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Company) AC Grayling — How to live well, according to philosophy AC Grayling, Professor of Philosophy and Principal of Northeastern University London, speaks at the Melbourne Writers Festival