Graham Cluley writes: Software developer Elliott Kember is upset with Google Chrome. Why? because of what he describes as its “insane password security strategy”. You see, unlike rivals like Firefox, when you tell your Chrome browser to remember a password it doesn’t give you the option to protect the information with a strong master password. Read…
Category: Misc
Online Privacy & The Right To Be Forgotten
Jasmine McNealy writes: Most Americans now have extensive digital footprints comprised of the Tweets, Facebook posts, LinkedIn profiles, Instagram photos, and other material they share online.(a) And this easily accessible public persona is just the tip of the iceberg. We may think our web searches, shopping habits, browsing history, and email archives are private, but this…
Brave New World of Biometric Identification
Danielle Citron writes: Professor Margaret Hu’s important new article, “Biometric ID Cybersurveillance” (Indiana Law Journal), carefully and chillingly lays out federal and state government’s increasing use of biometrics for identification and other purposes. These efforts are poised to lead to a national biometric ID with centralized databases of our iris, face, and fingerprints. Such multimodal…
No, it’s not always the government….
Yesterday, Twitter started to explode over a blog post by a Long Island woman who said law enforcement showed up at her home because she had Google searched pressure cookers, while her husband had searched for backpacks, and her son might have been reading up on the Boston bombing. It made for great fodder for…