Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’s extraordinary depiction of the start of Edward Snowden’s NSA surveillance leaking extravaganza, has won the Academy Award for best…
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AT&T charges $29 for privacy. Time for others to do the same
AT&T just rolled out blazing fast fiber-to-home internet service in Kansas City for $70 a month. But there’s a catch: customers who don’t…
Read MoreObama’s executive order calls for sharing of security data
President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday designed to spur businesses and the Federal Government to share with each other…
Read MoreEU privacy ruling should apply globally, says digital chief
One of the most interesting questions in European tech privacy circles right now is about territoriality and the so-called “right to be…
Read MoreLet’s learn about blockname, a decentralized version of DNS
This weekend brought us a panic about Samsung TVs listening to every word people say in their presence. A little reporting showed…
Read MoreWorried about smart TVs listening in? Welcome to the smart home
The last weekend saw a fair amount of freaking out over the privacy policy associated with Samsung’s smart TVs, which warns customers…
Read MoreParks and Recreation takes on Silicon Valley in final season
It’s not new for Silicon Valley to be the subject for Hollywood. From the actual TV series Silicon Valley, to one off…
Read MoreFunds flow in for GnuPG author after article reveals his plight
On Thursday ProPublica published the frustrating tale of Werner Koch, the one guy – yes really – who’s maintaining the extremely widely-used…
Read MoreFacebook faces fight in Europe over new privacy policy
Last week Facebook rolled out a new privacy policy that allows the sharing of data between its various services, such as Instagram…
Read MoreReport: US to grant foreigners limited NSA data deletion rights
The U.S. administration is set to make a few changes to the country’s mass surveillance practises, according to a New York Times…
Read MoreZombie UK surveillance law re-buried for billionth time
Having tried to insert the wording of the rejected Communications Data Bill into new U.K. anti-terror legislation, then having withdrawn the amendment…
Read MoreBritish securocrats try to sneak in Snooper’s Charter yet again
Earlier this month, four U.K. lords tried to sneak the text of a rejected piece of legislation popularly known as the Snooper’s…
Read MoreGoogle to give all users clearer information about data use
Google has vowed to revise its privacy policy and account settings, in order to make it clearer to people what it does with…
Read MoreHow net neutrality rules can fix Verizon’s supercookie problem
The FCC is on the cusp of proposing new rules for the internet, and it may have a chance to kill two birds…
Read MoreHow can the government stop the internet of perceived risks?
The headline du jour for the Federal Trade Commission’s report on the Internet of Things is that the agency recommends Congress should…
Read MoreInternet of things needs global privacy push, says UK regulator
The U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom has called for international industry standards on privacy in the internet of things. On Tuesday the regulator…
Read MoreUK Lords kill attempt to sneak in new surveillance laws
Members of the U.K. House of Lords, who last week introduced amendments to an antiterror bill that would have essentially brought back…
Read MoreResearchers show a machine learning network for connected devices
Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a method for building a machine learning algorithm from data gathered from a variety of…
Read MoreUK terror law amendments would bring back “Snooper’s Charter”
Four U.K. Lords have proposed amendments to an anti-terror bill that would revive much of the dormant Communications Data Bill, a.k.a the “Snooper’s…
Read MoreSnowden: Paris showed mass surveillance doesn’t stop terrorism
This month’s Paris shootings demonstrated that mass surveillance doesn’t stop terrorist attacks, Edward Snowden has claimed in an interview with Dutch broadcaster…
Read MoreHealthCare.gov gives trackers info on pregnancy, income and more
The U.S. government’s healthcare insurance sign-up site HealthCare.gov is quietly handing over deeply personal information to advertising and social networks, according to…
Read MoreFeds pay woman $134K over fake Facebook profile used in drug case
The federal government has changed course in a drug investigation in which agents pulled a woman’s photos from her cell phone without her permission and…
Read MoreMIT researcher on internet misogyny and programming for privacy
Jean Yang is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT and the creator of a language called Jeeves that automatically manages privacy policy in…
Read MoreThe curious case of Angela Merkel and her EU data retention ideas
In the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the European Commission to deliver…
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