Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai writes: Edward Snowden came in second place for TIME‘s Person of the Year, losing the top spot to Pope Francis, editors announced Wednesday morning. Read more on Mashable. You can find TIME’s Person of the Year results here. Frankly, I was surprised and yet not surprised at their list. I wasn’t surprised that Snowden wasn’t…
Category: Misc
Rand Paul: I’ll Take Privacy Fight to Supreme Court
And he huffed and he puffed… Greg Richter reports: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., says it is time the country re-examines the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment in light of recent revelations that the National Security Agency is mining data from millions of cellphones worldwide. He said he’s willing to “fight that all the way to the Supreme Court” if…
Hardcoding the Right to Privacy
Eric Klinker, CEO of BitTorrent, writes: …. Privacy won’t be solved in court. But it can be solved with code. The Internet platforms that you rely on do not need to store your data. If search, syncing, and social media platforms used distributed technologies, privacy would be hardcoded. Distributed protocols work the way the Internet was…
Companies Developing Crowd Analysis Programs To Detect ‘Abnormalities’ In Behavior And Match Faces Against Giant Databases
Glyn Moody writes: One of the reasons that the total surveillance programs of the NSA and GCHQ are possible is that computers continue to become more powerful and cheaper, allowing ever-more complex analyses to be conducted, including those that were simply not feasible before. Here’s another example of the kind of large-scale monitoring that is now…