Eleven years ago today, Ziplock and I opened PogoWasRight.org. The original site resides only on our hard drives by now, but the fond memories remain. Many of the issues you see covered on this site these days -like warrantless surveillance and student privacy – were also covered on the site back in 2006. And despite…
Category: Misc
The world we are leaving our children
Ben Harris-Roxas has the privacy tweet of the day: This was a bit sad and upsetting. My kid has started making surveillance cameras for Lego scenes pic.twitter.com/wQTjtlJjB8 — Ben Harris-Roxas ? (@ben_hr) March 12, 2017 “This was a bit sad and upsetting. My kid has started making surveillance cameras for Lego scenes.”
Announcing A New Open-Source Privacy Standard For The Internet Of Things
Seen on Consumerist: Consumerist is part of Consumer Reports, the 80-year-old nonprofit consumer organization, and today we are launching the first phase of a collaborative, open-source effort to create a new digital consumer-protection standard that safeguards consumers’ security and privacy. At its core, the standard is a series of criteria that manufacturers, researchers and others…
The Walled Off Hotel: Banksy opens dystopian tourist attraction in Bethlehem
Raf Sanchez reports: The Presidential Suite boasts “the worst view of any hotel in the world”. The piano lounge is decorated with mounted CCTV cameras. And the doorman in the top hat at the front stands just feet from one of the Middle East’s most-reviled structures. But it wouldn’t be a Banksy hotel without some dystopian…