Security vs Privacy – Why should you have to choose on messaging apps?

March 15th, 2021

Secure messaging platforms aren’t necessarily private. Though the messages’ contents might be encrypted, or protected from unauthorized users, the apps can still collect other private information about the platform’s users and communications. This collection of information about users’ data, known as metadata, is what sparked the historic Federal Trade Commission (FTC)... More

Could math change the law? What the 5th Amendment means in cryptography

March 15th, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated the digital boom. This new virtual world, though convenient, comes with issues of digital privacy and cybersecurity that the law is not yet equipped to handle. But reexamining current policies through a technical lens could provide a temporary solution. Concepts from mathematics can help scientists, lawyers, More

Cyber Alliance members discuss intersection of computer science & law at DIMACS workshop

March 15th, 2021

From November 10-12, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science(DIMACS) at Rutgers University held the Workshop on Co-Development of Computer Science and Law. The event focused on the future of converging computational techniques and legal principles, and the necessity of providing a computer science perspective on the legal... More

2019 DIMACS Workshop

March 14th, 2019

DIMACS/MACS Workshop on Usable, Efficient, and Formally Verified Secure Computation March 14, 2019 – March 15, 2019 Location: Barrister’s Hall – first floor Boston University Law School 765 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Groundbreaking results from the 1980s showed the surprising result that any function can be securely computed by a group of participants in a distributed... More