According to a recent Irish study 61% of organizations suffered a data breach last year. I highly doubt that high of a number is unique to Ireland. I would not be surprised if it was higher in some other places. The truth is the chances that you have had your personal information lost due to…
““When we talked about the revelations of Snowden, it was hard to convince some folks on the progressive side to care,” said Josh Levy, advocacy director of Access Now, a nonprofit that runs a digital security hotline to counsel activists around the world on how to avoid surveillance. “I would talk to folks about the…
“From a privacy perspective, this feels like a really bad idea to me.” I agree. We all pretty much know the NSA is snooping on us, now they’re going to share the information with a bunch of other government agencies, and countless number of people are going to have access to the data the NSA…
Word has it that the German government is mulling a new law under which Facebook could be fined up to 500,000 euros ($522,000) per fake news story per day it’s on the platform. The law would reportedly apply to other social networks as well. “If after the relevant checks Facebook does not immediately, within 24…
“These are the tools necessary to do real censorship of real and important ideas. Whether Facebook intends to use them that way initially or not, and I’m sure it doesn’t, the simple fact is that there’s no other way a trend toward censorship could possibly start, than this. Simply by setting a precedent that this…
This is an interesting story, because it demonstrates just how much information smart home devices may have, and how various government interests are going to try and access, and interpret, that data. It also raises some interesting questions about how that data could be hacked by non-official parties. Are we really going to believe that…