Polly Klaas Tragedy Changed How We Look for Missing Children

Polly Klaas Tragedy Changed How We Look for Missing Children

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Just over 30 years ago, on October 1, 1993, 12-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted from her home in Petaluma during a sleepover with two friends. Tragically, she was found dead more than two months later after...
Cleaning Up Your Internet Browser

Cleaning Up Your Internet Browser

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News My computer’s internet browser is, by far, the program that I use the most. That’s not the case with my mobile device, because so many of the services I use have their own apps. But, when I’m sitting at my PC...
AI Makes Mistakes But Could It Destroy Us?

AI Makes Mistakes But Could It Destroy Us?

by Larry Magid Before I get to the potentially deadly serious part of today’s column, I’d like to start on the lighter side. Lighter, that is, unless you happen to be attorney Steven A. Schwartz. In representing a man named Roberto Mata, who said he was injured aboard...
Managing Privacy on Facebook

Managing Privacy on Facebook

by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News There’s an old saying, “Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.” The same could be said about Facebook privacy but unlike the weather, there...