Delaware Public Media has an interview with Jameel Jaffer that you may wish to listen to. From their site: Drones, surveillance, torture, rendition, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. These are just some of the subjects over which Jameel Jaffer has fought the U.S. government. He is the head of the ACLU’s Center for Democracy — and now…
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Smart sex toy is oh so dumb when it comes to security
Graham Cluley writes: Are you familiar with the field of teledildonics? Do you own an internet-enabled “intimate personal massager”? Do you even know what I’m talking about? The truth is that most of us keep our lips sealed about what we get up to in the privacy of our bedrooms, especially when it comes to…
Rehashed: Lessons learned from the Safe Skies TSA master key leak
The headline may not sound like a sexy privacy headline to you, but do yourself a favor: read the article by Steve Ragan and watch the video embedded in it. Once more, it’s about illusions about security and why giving government backdoors or access is not really in our best interests.
Now the 100 individual privacy settings you need to set on your phone can be done in a single app
From Quartz: When it comes to privacy controls, we may now have too much of a good thing. Smartphone owners must now make more than 100 privacy decisions about how how much data their apps can share on Apple’s iOs and Google’s Android operating systems. That number will only climb as privacy settings affect more…