From EPIC.org: EPIC has released a report, “Smartphones and the 2012 Election,” which focuses on the potential risks to voters who download election-related apps to their smartphones and tablets. The report contends that these apps promote greater citizen participation in e-democracy, but also may contain malware, disseminate false information — or, as was recently reported about an…
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Email Privacy Pioneer Launches Silent Circle To Protect Mobile, Internet Calls
An Internet privacy veteran and inventor of a popular email encryption scheme is launching a suite of new products next month that will allow people to scramble their mobile phone calls, e-mails, text messages and Internet voice and video calls. Phil Zimmermann, creator of the standard email encryption known as PGP, which stands for ‘Pretty Good Privacy’,…
Article: The Life, Death, and Revival of Implied Confidentiality
Woodrow Hartzog has uploaded a new paper to SSRN. Here’s the abstract: The concept of implied confidentiality has deep legal roots, but it has been largely ignored by the law in online-related disputes. A closer look reveals that implied confidentiality has not been developed enough to be consistently applied in environments that often lack obvious…
App for disposable phone numbers launches
Meghan Kelly reports on disposable mobile phone number app that launched today: Burner launched today, an app that gives you one-off numbers that go dark after you’re done using them. But what happens when those numbers are used by criminals? The privacy-focused company says it is ready to deal with illicit behavior, and will comply…