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We need to create some new privacy rules for the 21st century that catch up to technologies new ability to assess not just our bodies but our minds.

From the blog of Chaya Lester at The Times of Israel

I’m not going outside again for another six weeks or so. It’s because of the cicadas, of course—the trillions of them that have emerged or will soon emerge from the ground across parts of the mid-Atlantic and the Midwest like disgusting popcorn. After 17 years, Brood X is back and here to torment me. (My phobia of bugs is intense. Once, while I was in a therapy session, a cockroach dropped from a curtain onto the floor. I grabbed my bag—what if the roach scrambled into it??—and leapt across the room before my therapist even realized what was happening. She killed it but later said ...

GQ Germany Lily Hay Newman Lily Hay Newman is a senior writer at WIRED focused on information security, digital privacy, and hacking. She previously worked as a technology reporter at Slate magazine and was the staff writer for Future Tense, a publication and project of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Additionally her work has appeared in Gizmodo, Fast Company, IEEE Spectrum, and Popular Mechanics. She lives in New York City. Lesen Sie mehr