Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Our World of Fake News ." Fake news about Israel and the Jews continues...

I though this was a fascinating ad for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). The little girl hanging onto to the UA...

These days someone is always watching. Whether someone is peering at you from upstairs or around the corner. Or there is a surveillance came...

Did I just walk into Urgent Care or is this Fort Knox's repository for gold bullion? I don't think I've ever seen this many ...

So this was funny today at Harris Teeter.  I'm checking out on the express line with a few things.  First some tofu. The lady at...

Yesterday, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, majorly dissed President Trump by attempting to cancel his State of the ...

This story continues to fascinate me.  China's social credit system started in 2015.  China scores individuals based on public data (...

So this is one of the craziest things in Washington, D.C.  There is a tree with a lock on it.  Yes, with a Master Lock on it.  Hi...

So this was the funniest War of the Roses on the Kane Show that I ever heard.  They use the Alexa personal assistant from Amazon (voiceove...

The  Chinese  government has the most brilliant as well as frightening use and control of social media.  I am not just talking about blo...

So you know you typically get a message when you log on your computer at work that there is "no expectation of privacy." Meanin...

So on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone... I want to say that the iPhone is probably one of the greatest inventions of all times...cong...

Absolutely fascinating article in the Washington Post .  China is working on a plan to use big data to score people on their social b...

So interesting article in BBC about the Samsung's "Listening TV." This TV has voice activated controls and they don...

You can try to hide your feeling, but it won't work... Your emotions are now an open book to anyone with facial-recognition software,...

This video from NOVA is an amazing display of the surveillance capabilities we have at our disposal. ARGUS-IS Stands for Automated Rea...

I remember hearing that sometimes the best way to hide is in plain sight--just where no one would think to look. Now there is a new cl...

This is some promising biometric technology from AOptix .  Enrolling in the system is the first step and means just seconds of standing ...

I read with interest Ronald Bailey's book review of Privacy by Garet Keizer in the Wall Street Journal ( 16 August 2012).  In ...

About a decade ago, after the events of 9/11, there was a program called Total Information Awareness (TIA) run out the Defense Advance...