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A fight over ads,  encryption and law enforcement

A fight over ads,  encryption and law enforcement

(March 14th, 2016) The battle between parts of the U.S. private sector and government officials over the tension between privacy and law enforcement goes on.   Politico reported on  California Sen. Dianne Feinstein “criticizing technology companies for preventing...

Obama pleads for cooperation on smartphone access

Obama pleads for cooperation on smartphone access

(March 14th, 2016) President  Obama said  on May 11 that smartphones – such as the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists that the FBI is trying to make Apple Inc. help it hack for information about possible ISIS links -- can’t be allowed to be "black...

Healthcare information under attack

Healthcare information under attack

U.S. healthcare providers lag way behind other industries in protecting their digitized data about patients. Thus the number of cyber-attacks is only expected to accelerate. See more The number of healthcare-data attacks over the past five years has increased 125...

US, Japan and India to conduct joint military maneuvers

US, Japan and India to conduct joint military maneuvers

(7th March 2016) Robert Whitcomb, Chairman of the Providence Committee on Foreign Relation, Managing Editor of the Boston Global Forum commented on the join military maneuvers of US, Japan and India In a sign of slowly growing cooperation to counter aggressive Chinese...

Ideas for cyber-security recommendations for G7 Summit

Ideas for cyber-security recommendations for G7 Summit

(7th March 2016) After a month of discussions, the Boston Global Forum’s cyber-security group has produced these early ideas as a basis for possible future recommendations to G7 Summit leaders. Encouraging private-sector enterprises to create market-based incentives...

The terrorist’s iPhone: The Government is right

The terrorist’s iPhone: The Government is right

(29th Feb 2016) Robert Whitcomb , Managing Editor of the Boston Global Forum shared his view about The Terrorist's iPhone The U.S. government has the much stronger argument in its battle with Apple over getting access to information in the iPhone of one of the two San...