Tag Archives: Privacy

The UK’s Telegraph has published what is certainly the year’s most ignorant and dishonest op-ed. Clare Foges, until recently PM David Cameron’s chief speechwriter, weighs in on the encryption wars and calls out Apple and Google for putting profit before … Continue reading →

The New York Times editorial board has a nice editorial on why mass surveillance is not the answer to terrorism. Like the New Yorker article that I wrote about yesterday, the Times calls out Brennan and Clapper for their past … Continue reading →

After the tragedy and outrage in Paris last week, the usual suspects are running around saying, “See? This is what happens when things go dark.” Except, of course, there’s no evidence that the perpetrators used encryption and plenty of indications … Continue reading →

…this would happen?

The government that claims it can safely manage backdoor keys to our communications has once again demonstrated its fecklessness at securing sensitive data. Sans Newsbites is reporting that several license plate reader cameras were exposed online. In some cases, the … Continue reading →

Edward Snowden cuts through the baloney and reminds us of the real meaning of Metadata. "Metadata" means records about your private activities and associations. It's an activity dossier. The novelty is in the lack of warrants. — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) … Continue reading →

Governments are fond of telling us not to worry about their wholesale collection of phone records because, after all, it’s just metadata. Mike Rogers even tried to press the point that since the records contained only phone numbers they couldn’t … Continue reading →

Here’s some good news. It’s a little old now but still worth noting. Huge #cryptowars victory: after just one day of public outcry, India withdraws dangerous anti-encryption proposal http://t.co/RjTA5le3kR — Kevin Bankston (@KevinBankston) September 22, 2015 The Indian government has … Continue reading →

A nice followup to Blaze’s tweet that encryption was a problem in only four cases last year. I'll bet burglars wore gloves to avoid leaving fingerprint evidence a lot more than four times last year. Time for a war on … Continue reading →

Perhaps this will help. Remember yesterday when I wrote about the MI5’s Andrew Parker assuring us that “MI5 is not about “browsing the lives” of the public? Here’s what they do when they think no one’s watching: The Intercept reports … Continue reading →