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Don’t Want to Be Spied On? Think About Encryption
By Fahmida Y. Rashid The twin disclosures last week about the National Security Agency’s extensive surveillance program accomplished something that no amount of SecurityWatch posts could ever have accomplished: It got regular Internet users talking about encryption. Right after the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cryptography, Encryption, National Security Agency, NSA, PRISM, privacy, security, Verizon, Washington Post
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AT&T, Sprint also part of NSA’s phone data collection probe
By Sean Buckley The National Security Agency’s phone and data collection effort targeting Verizon (NYSE: VZ) also included AT&T (NYSE: T) and Sprint (NYSE: S), according to various reports. While Verizon was initially the only provider named by The Guardian … Continue reading
No Warrant, No Problem: How the Government Can Get Your Digital Data
By Theodoric Meyer and Peter Maass Update June 6, 2013: This post has been revised to reflect reports of regular FBI and National Security Agency surveillance of domestic phone records under a provision of the Patriot Act. It … Continue reading
FCC to vote on new rules to protect wireless customers’ call data
By Phil Goldstein The FCC will vote later this month on new rules that clarify how carriers can use their customers call data and to ensure the the data is better protected. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 gives the FCC authority … Continue reading
Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo
Enlightening presentation on privacy and sharing in a digital world.
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Tagged digital life, Juan Enriquez, online, privacy, social media, technology, TED, video
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An Open Letter
Dear friends, The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, is a proposed law that would give companies unprecedented power to hand your personal information from the internet, including from private communications, over to government agencies without … Continue reading
CIAs Gus Hunt On Big Data: We Try To Collect Everything And Hang Onto It Forever
By Matt Sledge NEW YORK — The CIAs chief technology officer outlined the agencys endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday. Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOMs Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO … Continue reading
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The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’
By Julian Assange “THE New Digital Age” is a startlingly clear and provocative blueprint for technocratic imperialism, from two of its leading witch doctors, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen, who construct a new idiom for United States global power in … Continue reading →