Dave Piscitello writes: The purpose of this post – and the embedded survey – is to learn whether 2-step verification is popular, and where people are using it. A secondary purpose is to raise awareness of 2-step-verification so that more people will be encouraged to use it. Please take a few minutes to answer the…
Category: Misc
It’s Data Privacy Day 2015!
It’s Data Privacy Day 2015, and Dave Piscitello (@SecuritySkeptic) compiled his reading list, which he has kindly shared with this site: Council of Europe Data Protection Day 2015 Cloudward.net’s Data Privacy Day 2015: Top Experts Comment on Privacy Issues Internet Society’s Four Basic Steps to Protecting Your Digital Privacy in 2015 Data Privacy Day: Do you know what…
Privacy is dead and it’s never coming back, Harvard professors say
AFP reports: Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA. Or where a department store knows from your buying habits that you’re pregnant even before your family does. That is the terrifying dystopian world portrayed by a group of Harvard professors at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday,…
Germany’s Merkel urges new EU law on data retention
BBC reports: German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will press for new EU rules soon on data retention, to help in the fight against terrorism. An EU directive on data retention was made invalid by a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling last April. That 2006 directive opened up private communications data to police, but…