David
Choffnes
Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science
David Choffnes in the Press
Fortune
Why big pharma is teaming up with AI giants to speed up drug discovery and make work easier for health care workers
“We now have AWS, Azure and Cloudflare outages in the span of a month,” said David Choffnes, a professor of computer science at Northeastern University, told The New York Times. “That’s a very large portion of the biggest cloud providers in the world.”
No, Your iPhone Isn’t Listening to You. Here’s What’s Really Happening
Independent researchers have gone looking for covert “listening” and found none, including a definitive 2018 Northeastern University study that has yet to be superseded. What they did catch in a handful of cases were screen recordings or image and video uploads to third parties. Creepy, sure, but not a hot mic.
‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing
Yet there were critics even in the moment of glory. “It reveals the kind of sweeping surveillance going on,” warned David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, when contacted by a reporter.
One Tech Tip: How to protect your 23andMe genetic data
“At a fundamental biological level, this is you and only you,” said David Choffnes, a computer science professor at Northeastern University and executive director of its Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.
Our homes may be smarter — but are we getting dumber?
David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University, notes that “when we think of what happens between the walls of our homes, we think of it as a trusted, private place.
What 23andMe’s bankruptcy means for your DNA data
“At a fundamental biological level, this is you and only you,” said David Choffnes, a computer science professor at Northeastern University and executive director of its Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute.
CBC Radio
Is your car spying on you? Here’s how vehicles gather your data
“This is unfortunately not surprising that they have this data,” said David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston.
ABC News
What will happen to TikTok on Apple and Google’s app store on Sunday?
Meanwhile, David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, said he believes there’s a “small chance” that nothing happens to TikTok, but acknowledged that would require “enormous risk on the on the part of the companies that support them.”
What will happen to TikTok on Apple and Google’s app store on Sunday?
Meanwhile, David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, said he believes there’s a “small chance” that nothing happens to TikTok, but acknowledged that would require “enormous risk on the on the part of the companies that support them.”
WCVB TV
Massachusetts politicians, TikTok users react to Supreme Court’s decision to uphold TikTok ban
Northeastern University professor David Choffnes says data collection leading to targeting ads is mostly harmless. “People should be concerned in general when they’re using apps that collect all kinds of information about us,” Choffnes said.
