Paula Mejia reports: Government whistleblower Edward Snowden gave the public a few words of wisdom, and caution, during a Saturday night video interview for The New Yorker Festival. During the hour-long conversation with The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, Snowden advised viewers to get rid of Dropbox, and to avoid using high-profile online services such as Facebook…
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With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online
Andy Greenberg reports: No tool in existence protects your anonymity on the Web better than the software Tor, which encrypts Internet traffic and bounces it through random computers around the world. But for guarding anything other than Web browsing, Tor has required a mixture of finicky technical setup and software tweaks. Now routing allyour traffic through…
Snapchat defends itself as anonymous poster announces there will be no “snappening”
Telling users that if their private pictures have been breached, it’s their own fault for using a third-party service does not strike this privacy blogger as a great PR move – even if a”tough user love” approach deflects some threats of lawsuits or blame. Yet that’s what Snapchat has seemingly done in the wake of another breach….
Google updates ‘right to be forgotten’ stats
Chris O’Brien reports: Google has just released an updated version of its Transparency Report, providing new details about the impact it has seen since a European court upheld the so-called “right to be forgotten.” Bottom line: Google said it has received “142,000 requests to remove links to more than 490,000 web pages.” Read more on VentureBeat.