Francesca Paris and Scott Simon report: Charlotte Lehman could hear the man reading his credit card number out loud from across the Starbucks. He was speaking to a companion, but his voice carried over the music to where Lehman sat. Surrounded by a dozen or so people, the speaker also divulged his phone number and…
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We’re not safe without information privacy
Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, and CIO of Everipedia, has an OpEd on Podium. He writes, in part, that both political parties have not served us well in terms of protecting us from the serious risks we face: Remember when everybody left social media in droves and started locking down their Internet use, because otherwise…
‘Cookie Walls’ Outlawed By Dutch Privacy Officials
Wendy Davis reports: Take-it-or-leave-it privacy policies that require people to accept tracking cookies in order to access a website are illegal, Dutch regulators said this week. “Thorough monitoring and analysis of the behavior of website visitors and the sharing of this information with other parties is only allowed with permission. That permission must be completely free,”…
China’s “democracy” includes mandatory apps, mass chat surveillance
Sometimes I think I’ve posted things but I just posted them in my head and not on the blog until Joe C. sends me a link with an email and I think, “Wait, didn’t I post that already?” In today’s episode of I-thought-I-had-posted-this-already, Sean Gallagher reported: As the National People’s Congress gathers in Beijing for the…