Tag Archives: Privacy

Speaking of the downsides of working from home, NPR and CNBC have horrifying stories about the anal micromanagers requiring workers to install spyware on their computer and even their phones so they can track their every movement, keystroke, and mouse … Continue reading →

Over at Kaspersky, Cory Doctorow has an interesting article that argues that far from being the new oil, data is actually the new toxic waste. He begins by noting that any data you collect will, sooner or later, leak and … Continue reading →

As regular Irreal readers know to their sorrow, one of my favorite hobby horses is the need to keep control of your data. Broadly that means keeping it in open formats and on computers that you manage. If you’re committing … Continue reading →

If you’ve been around Irreal for a while, you know about the Iron Law of Data Collection. Briefly, the law says that anytime data is collected No matter the rationale and promises about the data collection and the purposes to … Continue reading →

Regular readers know that I regularly reproach those who depend on Google apps. It’s not that I insist that everybody use open source exclusively—I don’t—but I find it excruciating to read about people committing the only copy their valuable data … Continue reading →

It almost certainly won’t be enacted in its current form but US Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a privacy bill with some real teeth. Among other things it calls for significant jail time for CEOs and other executives who lie … Continue reading →