Tag Archives: Privacy

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

In yet another case of the Iron Law of Data Collection, we have this example from Seattle. For the last four years, King County Animal Services has been sending notices to residents who have unlicensed pets that they must license … Continue reading →

Yesterday, in my post about AT&T, Time Warner, and the Iron Law of Data Collection, I complained that in all whining about what an unfair advantage AT&T/Time Warner would have in advertising, little notice was taken of the fact that … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I’ve written about the Iron Law of Data Collection. That’s the idea that when the Government collects data, regardless of the stated rationale, there will inevitably be mission creep that sees the data being used … Continue reading →

If you were surprised by this This past summer Google quietly dropped its historic ban on merging Web browsing info with your name.https://t.co/TRgREtYvaO — Julia Angwin (@JuliaAngwin) October 21, 2016 you haven’t been paying attention. Google is in the business … Continue reading →