By this, logic, obviously, we learn that cars, guns, and bricks should be outlawed due to their potential for nefarious uses.
Cambridge Analytica's ability to target marginalized groups of voters was only possible because Facebook completely overlooked the potential for a nefarious organization to do so.
One option would be to ignore them a number of people on the left have suggested that Trump uses @realDonaldTrump's silliness as a distraction from the real Donald Trump's more nefarious activities, namely the potential conflicts of interest stemming from his international real estate business.
To date, no concrete evidence has surfaced that Barasch's suppression of the various potential probes of Stanford was anything more nefarious than bad judgment.
WASHINGTON — In the view of America's spy services, the next potential threat from Russia may not come from a nefarious cyberweapon or secrets gleaned from the files of Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor now in Moscow.
Tessian then attempts to detect anomalies in outgoing emails and warns users about potential mistakes, such as a wrongly intended recipient, or nefarious employee activity, before an email is sent.
Fouchier's paper is one of two studies that have triggered an intense debate about the limits of scientific freedom and that could portend changes in the way U.S. researchers handle so-called dual-use research: studies that have a potential public health benefit but could also be useful for nefarious purposes like biowarfare or bioterrorism.
Spying on individuals on a massive scale, without strict legal rules and democratic oversight, can have adverse effects on freedom of speech, association and participation, and can create a nefarious social climate where all individuals are seen as potential suspects.
Apropos such potential, we provide a complementary view that considers capricious, if not nefarious use of CRISPR to modify biological entities (e.g., microbes, plants, animals, and humans) and/or produce bioagents that pose risk and/or threat to public safety (DiEuliis and Giordano, 2017).
The report warns of the potential future threat from powerful surveillance tools ending up in the hands of nefarious power-holders.
