Well, I planned to do some news updates while I’m on vacation, but it turns out I couldn’t get a wifi connection at my friend’s home – or an ethernet one. Not sure why my American Apple products are having trouble here and BT support threw up their hands after 49 minutes. So… updating will…
Category: Misc
(Updated and CORRECTED) Leaked TISA Documents Reveal Privacy Threat
Update and Correction: After I posed this item from Forbes, Susan Aaronson tweeted: Kudos to #wikileaks for leaking TISA, but leak was out of date and misrepresented. So not helpful. — susan aaronson (@AaronsonSusan) June 5, 2015 I asked her if the Forbes article cited below was inaccurate, and she replied: Yes, because it is…
Quote of the Day
Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say — Edward Snowden via Sophie Kleeman, mic.com
Why empowering consumers won’t (by itself) stop privacy breaches
Babak Siavoshy writes: Who bears the costs of privacy breaches? It’s challenging enough to articulate the nature of privacy harms, let alone determine how the resulting costs should be allocated. Yet the question of “who pays” is an important, unavoidable, and in my view undertheorized one. The current default seems to be something akin to caveat emptor: consumers of services — both individually as…