Blake Dowling, Author at Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Blake DowlingDecember 9, 2017

About three years ago, I first started writing about artificial intelligence and the various applications of such. And since then, there’s been much to write about: Starship robot delivery services (introduced to me by the team at Greenberg Traurig), Google (Waymo) self-driving cars, Watson from IBM diagnosing illnesses, various AI legal aids for lawyers, lobbyists […]

Blake DowlingDecember 2, 2017

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Have you ever lost an election, been fired or run out of an organization? Lane Kiffin has. Currently, Kiffin coaches the Florida Atlantic University football team. Before that, he had stopped at the Raiders, USC and (for today’s purposes) the University of Tennessee. I never met Lane, but I knew his ex-wife Layla in college. […]

Blake DowlingNovember 22, 2017

A local TV station just called to ask our take on the Uber breach. When they call, it’s a good cue to write something about the topic. It also means I must stop thinking about turkey, IPA and college football. Rivalry weekend is something to be cherished indeed. What went wrong? A company that has […]

Blake DowlingNovember 18, 2017

Chip Kelly to Florida as head coach; Jimbo Fischer pursued by Texas A&M. Kevin Spacey is a predator; UCLA Hoops players shoplift in China (way to go, guys, making America look great. (Isn’t there another U.S. athlete still in jail in China?) A mistrial for U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, Roy Moore, etc. … crazy, sad, […]

Blake DowlingNovember 5, 2017

The last presidential election was unlike any in my lifetime. All predictions and polls wrong. FBI investigation right before Election Day. Crude language about women right before the election. A rogue candidate vs a political elitist. New revelations of social media ads bought by the Russians to influence voters. The experts got it wrong, the […]

Blake DowlingNovember 4, 2017

This year has been exceptionally brutal on the cybersecurity front, and ransomware in particular. You know it is terrible when Webster tosses the name in the book. According to the 2017 Merriam-Webster Dictionary, “ransomware” is malware requiring the victim to pay a ransom to access encrypted files. Also added were other random words that have […]

Blake DowlingOctober 17, 2017

If you hear about a wireless situation affecting ALL Wi-Fi devices in the world. Take a deep breath, don’t do the panic dance or smash anything. Windows users are most likely in the clear. But you need to be in the know. If you are an Android or Mac user, stay tuned for more info. […]

Blake DowlingOctober 7, 2017

Last month, we saw a monster of a breach, from an entity supposedly on the extremely protected side of the conversation: Equifax. You may think just because you never gave them your information that they don’t have it. Not so fast, says Lee Corso. Equifax has your info from banks, creditors, and public records, it […]

Blake DowlingSeptember 30, 2017

I put together a column for INFLUENCE Magazine (should be out soon) about political paid digital advertising and microtargeting. It is a complicated process of getting in front of certain demographics that would take hours of survey questions — using old-school focus groups — for TV ads. Now, with all the data collected by social […]

Blake DowlingSeptember 21, 2017

For the next threat, both our state and nation are constantly sleeping with one eye open. The threat landscape consists of digital, cultural, and of course good old Mother Nature. At the top of the list: hurricanes, terrorism, human trafficking, and even the current opioid epidemic in Florida. Tech Industry leaders and our government are […]

Blake Dowling

Blake Dowling: Knightscope, AI and security

Blake Dowling: Vols, Lane Kiffin, Jimbo Fisher and all the social media #goodstuff

Blake Dowling: Uber troubles

Blake Dowling: Flying taxis for you and me!

Blake Dowling: Elections, psychometrics and social media’s dark side

Blake Dowling: The scourge of ransomware

Blake Dowling: Beware KRAK, the latest tech threat

Blake Dowling: Equifax – the mother of all breaches

Blake Dowling: Microtargeting, a tough fact to follow

Blake Dowling: Tech and the next threat