I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, but Mario Trujillo reports: Nearly nine in 10 U.S. voters want “the right to be forgotten” on the Internet, according to a new poll. Eighty-eight percent support a U.S. law that would let them petition companies like Google, Yahoo and Bing to remove certain personal information that appears in search…
Category: Misc
Microsoft gets very personal with “Windows Hello.” Too personal?
I remember how (naively) excited I was years ago when my new laptop came pre-installed with a fingerprint sensor for security. I never got it working, though, and I do mean NEVER. Dutifully swiping my finger as instructed produced inconsistent results, and I worried that if I did get it working, I might find myself…
Princeton boffins sniff Tor users’ IDs from TCP ACKs and server sweat
Richard Chirgwin reports: Tor is regularly recommended as a vital privacy protection technology, and just as regularly, researchers discover ways to de-anonymise users, and the latest of these has just hit Arxiv. The research, led by boffins from Princeton, demonstrates ways to de-anonymise Tor users with access to just one end of a communication path,…
The Clintons Love the Privacy Defense
Joel Gehrke writes: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invoked the need for personal privacy during her press conference on why she flouted federal policy by using a personal email account exclusively, even for government work, hosted on on a personal server that she is refusing to reveal to anyone outside her team. “No one wants their personal…