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Tag Archives: Privacy
Adtech Followup
As a followup to my post the other day on Adtech Progress, here’s some commentary from the EFF on the Google and Apple announcements. The TL;DR is that although the EFF welcomes both initiatives, they regret that Google, unlike Apple, … Continue reading
Some Progress on Adtech
Regular readers know that Adtech is the general term for the technology that advertisers use to spy on us and collect information about our buying and surfing habits. It’s widespread, mostly fraudulent from an advertisers’ point of view, is a … Continue reading
The FBI Proves the Iron Law of Data Collection
About a year ago, I wrote about the FBI’s use of §702 data—supposedly collected to fight terrorism—for routine law enforcement having nothing to do with terrorism. I called it another confirmation of the Iron Law of Data Collection: the idea … Continue reading
The Past Comes Due
Irreal oldtimers know that I have often railed about the activities of the NSA and their domestic spying and about the ever more shrill demands by law enforcement that they be given a back door into our cell phones. As … Continue reading
Comey and Feinstein At It Again
James Comey and Dianne Feinstein are at it again pressing for legislation to compel device manufacturers to enable law enforcement to bypass device encryption. In a sense, nothing is new. Comey is trotting out the same arguments—many or most of … Continue reading
The Iron Law Strikes in Baltimore
Baltimore has an aerial surveillance program that uses a small plane equipped with high resolution cameras flying over the city for hours at a time. This is eternal story of surveillance: first it's terrorism, then it's drug cases, then it's … Continue reading
Who Would Have Thought?
Via Matthew Green about this story: Who could have foreseen the always-on home microphone might be of interest to the cops? — Pinboard (@Pinboard) December 27, 2016 Who indeed? It’s almost like they’ve never heard of the iron law of … Continue reading
Always Encrypt
Here’s a piece of essential advice Never trust any company with your #privacy, always #encrypt. https://t.co/X08TMfhzL6 — privacytools.io (@privacytoolsIO) December 15, 2016 If you follow the links, you end up at this CNN Tech story about Evernote changing their terms … Continue reading
The Iron Law and the Census
Not that we need another one but this 2007 Scientific American article has a frightening illustration of the Iron Law of Data Collection at work. Here in the U.S. the Constitution provides for a decennial census of the population in … Continue reading