LinkedIn, a popular professional networking application, is trying to grab the most sensitive data of users. The company has started to – seemingly arbitrarily - block users and then demand copies of driver’s licenses to make the accounts accessible again. Since drivers’ license is the most sensitive government-issued document in the US, and LinkedIn is the culprit of two of the largest data breaches in the history of the internet, sending them this information puts users at extremely high risk for identity theft – leaving them with the unpalatable option of either giving up the network they have built up over the years, or risking falling victim to identity theft.

WiDeS PostDocs Lei Chu and Ju-Hyung Lee acted as mentors in the Viterbi Summer Institute (VSI), which gives incoming freshmen from underrepresented minorities their first research experiences. Eryn Osei and Zolia Sarmiento (advised by Dr. Lee), and Naomi Cruz (advised by Dr. Chu, shown in photo) learned about fundamental research methodology and did some first machine learning projects. Naomi Cruz will continue her work with Dr. Chu as CURVE student in the upcoming semester.

The third, expanded and completely revised edition of the popular textbook "Wireless Communications" was just published by IEEE Press - Wiley. Subtitled "From Fundamentals to Beyond 5G", the text leads from the basics of wireless propagation, digital modulation, to cellular system design, to cutting-edge topics such as massive MIMO, NOMA, and the 5G standards. More details at wiley.com/go/molisch/wireless3e and here