Dahlia Lithwick has a commentary on Slate that expresses the same points I’ve made on this blog in the past. I couldn’t agree with her more: Once upon a time, you had to be a person to assert a right to personal privacy. But more and more it seems that the demand for personal privacy…
Category: Business
Dilbert on businesses and privacy
Scott Adams is definitely on a roll this week. Here are the Dilbert strips from yesterday and today:
Holding Nokia Responsible for Surveilling Dissidents in Iran
Eddan Katz of EFF issues this call to action in a case mentioned previously on this blog: EFF has long pointed out that technology companies are complicit in human rights violations when they knowingly sell customized human surveillance technologies to repressive regimes that are then used to target people for arrest, torture, and disappearance. Now a…
Bruce Schneier warns ‘profits killing personal privacy’
Mark Ward reports: Personal privacy is in danger of being killed off by the profit-making motives of firms which hold our data, security expert Bruce Schneier has warned. BT’s chief technology officer expressed his concerns at the RSA Security Europe Conference in London. Read more on BBC.