Hilts, Andrew and Parsons, Christopher A., Half Baked: The Opportunity to Secure Cookie-Based Identifiers from Passive Surveillance (August 6, 2015). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2640610 Abstract: Documents released by Edward Snowden have revealed that the National Security Agency, and its Australian, British, Canadian, and New Zealand equivalents, routinely monitor the Internet for the identifiers that are contained…
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Do Not Track: Documentary Web Series Provides a Dystopian Glimpse into the Tracking Universe
Sarah Myers West writes: Do Not Track (not to be confused with EFF’s recently launched browser policy) makes the most of the documentary web series format: it is a fully immersive, interactive experience that makes good use of cat gifs in order to explain the technologies that track us across the web. So to tell the truth, I was…
Lenny Kravitz Is Considering Legal Action Over Those #PenisGate Photos
Lenny Kravitz, meet Barbra Streisand. Uproxx reports: Hope everyone got a good look, because Lenny Kravitz has had just about enough of your gawking. When the rocker’s “axe” first surfaced on the internet after its surprise cameo at a festival in Stockholm, Sweden, it was all laughs. Even Lenny himself took a lighthearted approach to the potentially embarrassing…
Privacy Badger 1.0 Is Here To Stop Online Tracking!
From EFF.org: EFF is excited to announce that we are releasing version 1.0 of Privacy Badger for Chrome and Firefox. Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically blocks hidden trackers that would otherwise spy on your browsing habits as you surf the Web. More than a quarter of million users have already installed the…