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’,…
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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…
Obama campaign app concerns some privacy advocates
It may be legal, but it still feels creepy to some. Hayley Tsukayama of the Washington Post quotes some privacy advocates on the new iPhone app that maps the location of your nearby Democrats, identifying them by first name, last initial and home address.