I’ve been informed that tonight (Thursday), my web host will be performing a server update, and that my sites may be unavailable at some point. They anticipate the outage to be 15-30 minutes. Based on past experiences, if I’m not back online by tomorrow noon, send coffee….
Category: Misc
Fujitsu Labs makes tech for batch searches of encrypted data
Tim Hornyak reports: If snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency isn’t enough to make you worry about your privacy, Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a fast method to perform secret searches of data that is encrypted. The technology makes use of homomorphic encryption, which allows for operations to be performed on encrypted data without having…
10 Reasons Why Privacy Matters
Daniel Solove writes: Why does privacy matter? Often courts and commentators struggle to articulate why privacy is valuable. They see privacy violations as often slight annoyances. But privacy matters a lot more than that. Here are 10 reasons why privacy matters. Read Dan’s reasons in this LinkedIn post. Is there anything you’d add to his…
“Mr. Wemmick’s Condition; Or, Privacy as a Disposition, Complete with Skeptical Observations Regarding Various Regulatory Enthusiasms.”
Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare introduces a paper by Joel Brenner that sounds like an article to add to my must-read list: The War on Law Reviews continues on many fronts: land, sea, air, and particularly in the cyber domain, where today I am pleased to offer the next paper in the Lawfare Research Paper Series: Joel Brenner’s “Mr….