Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our political and social institutions in its image.

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

In the past it would take you weeks, if not months, to identify how Iranian activists connect to each other. Now you know how they connect to each other by looking at their Facebook page. KGB ... used to torture in order to get this data.

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.