To those who celebrate: Merry Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa! PogoWasRight.org and DataBreaches.net will be updated over the next few days, but perhaps not as much as I hope to take some time to enjoy family and friends.
Category: Misc
You wouldn’t believe… or maybe you would….
What happens when one privacy advocate tries to surprise another privacy advocate with a gift? No one could have foreseen what happened, right? Regular readers of this site know how much Joe Cadillic contributes on a regular basis. When he’s not busy writing his own blog posts for his site, MassPrivateI, he’s sending me links to stories that I might want to…
Privacy and Cybersecurity: A Global Year-End Review
There have been a number of reviews of privacy and security news in 2018. Here’s one by Jadzia Pierce of Covington & Burling, the law firm that has represented my blogs for lo, these many years. I thank them for their ongoing support of my work, and wish them all a happy and healthy New Year in 2019….
Timothy C. May, Early Advocate of Internet Privacy, Dies at 66
Nathaniel Popper writes: Timothy C. May, a physicist, polemicist and cantankerous advocate of internet privacy who helped start a movement aimed at protecting the privacy of individuals online, died on Dec. 13 at his home in Corralitos, Calif. He was 66. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Coroner’s office confirmed his death but said that the cause…