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…
Category: Misc
An interview with…… me.
Don’t ask me why I agreed. Maybe they caught me on an off-day. Maybe I thought it would give me a chance to reflect on where this site has been. I don’t know, as I usually avoid interviews. But I agreed to do an interview with John Norris of vpnMentor.com and you can read it…
No Privacy Rollback for the FBI’s Biometric Mega-Database: Sign the Petition
From EFF: Since 2008, the FBI has been assembling a massive database of biometric information on tens of millions of people, collected not just during arrests, but also for non-criminal reasons like immigration, background checks, and state licensing requirements. And for years, the FBI has dragged its feet in complying with federal privacy laws, resulting…
EFF Urges Citizens, Websites to Fight Rule Changes Expanding Government Powers to Break Into Users’ Computers
Changes to Rule 41 Will Greatly Increase Law Enforcement Hacking, Surveillance San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Tor Project, and dozens of other organizations are calling today on citizens and website operators to take action to block a new rule pushed by the U.S. Justice Department that would greatly expand the government’s ability to…