Category: Misc

Fifty years ago today, I wasn’t speaking to my parents. I was glued to the TV, angry at them that they had blocked me from going to Washington, D.C. for the march and demonstration in support of civil rights.  The bi-racial couple across the street were going, and knowing that I was active in my…

Jennifer Granick writes: On July 30, 2013, I had the pleasure of having dinner with General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency. Just a few weeks earlier, NYU Law Professor Christopher Sprigman and I had called the NSA’s activities“criminal” in the digital pages of the New York Times, so I thought it was particularly…

Arnold Roosendaal has uploaded his doctoral dissertation, conducted at Tilburg University, to SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Every individual is represented in digital form in numerous data sets. Commercial companies use these digital representations as a basis for making decisions that affect the individual. This has implications for privacy and autonomy of the individual and the…

Dennis Kügler of IVPN writes: As we’ve mentioned before on this blog, not all commercial VPN services are concerned about protecting your privacy, with some platforms presenting just as many surveillance risks as a regular ISP. VPN services are, of course, free to log your data and there’s nothing dishonest about this practice if it’s openly disclosed….