Collaborate Disseminate
When security professionals think of “good” data and “bad” data, we think of things including accuracy, reliability, recency and applicability. But a more significant question is about data collection and use. All too often we focus our attention on d… Continue reading Privacy and Morality: Data’s Double-Edged Sword
A legal challenge to the UK’s controversial mass surveillance regime has revealed shocking failures by the main state intelligence agency, which has broad powers to hack computers and phones and intercept digital communications, in handling people’s information. The challenge, by rights group Liberty, led last month to an initial finding that MI5 had systematically breached …
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The NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value. Continue reading NSA asks to end mass phone surveillance
How concerned are you about the privacy implications of facial recognition? Weigh in with our poll. Continue reading Poll: Are You Creeped Out by Facial Recognition?
Microsoft and the AI Now Institute are both calling for regulation as facial recognition software picks up popularity. Continue reading Microsoft Calls For Facial Recognition Tech Regulation
Drug and immigration cops in the US are buying surveillance cameras to hide in streetlights and traffic barrels. Continue reading DEA and ICE hiding cameras in streetlights and traffic barrels
“This is about sticking a middle finger up to mobile filtering, mass surveillance.” Continue reading This SIM Card Forces all of Your Mobile Data Through Tor
Who’s got your back when it comes to willingness (or otherwise) to hand over your data to third parties? Some of the results from the EFF’s report are surprising Continue reading Who gets gold stars for looking after your privacy?
Facebook’s soul-searching report sets itself the challenge of knowing itself Continue reading Facebook admits it is being used as propaganda tool by ‘malicious actors’
Wikileaks completed its 10 years today, and within this timespan, the whistleblower site has published over 10 million documents, and there’s more to come.
In the name of celebration of its 10th Anniversary, Wikileaks promises to leak documents pertaining to Google, United States presidential election and more over the next ten weeks.
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