Category: Misc

Bill Ray reports: Silent Circle, the secure mobile communications app backed by Phil Zimmerman, has gone live – offering protection from all but the most determined of government departments. Silent Circle comprises a handful of iOS/Android/PC apps facilitating secure phone calls, text messaging and video calling, with secure email promised soon, all presented through an…

Kevin Sack of the New York Times reports: A Social Security Administration shift last year to limit access to its death records amid identity-theft concerns is beginning to hamper a broad swath of research, including federal government assessments of hospital safety and financial industry efforts to spot consumer fraud. For example, a research group that…

Interesting infographic from Muhammed Saleem:

Peter Fleischer writes: There’s an entire, vibrant privacy conference business.  There are privacy conferences somewhere in the world every week of the year.  Some are commercial, some are taxpayer-funded.  Why are they so boring? Because they take one of the most interesting topics in the world, privacy, and discuss and debate it from an insular…