To those celebrating today: Happy Thanksgiving, and may your day be a great one with family and friends. One of the things I’m always thankful for is the help of Joe Cadillic, who does yeoman service keeping us all aware of news stories or developments we might otherwise miss. News updates will resume tonight, but…
Category: Misc
Senator Ted Cruz – Privacy Hypocrite, Calls Out Tim Cook – American Hero
Mark Weinstein writes: For years now, stories have come out about how all of Congress hates Senator Ted Cruz. Former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner called Cruz “Lucifer in the flesh”and a “miserable son of a bitch.” He’s despised on both sides of the aisle, with Democratic Senator Al Franken this year stating…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Warns Against Warrant-Proof Encryption
Inside Privacy writes: In a speech delivered at the United States Naval Academy on October 10, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein waded into the public debate between data privacy and law enforcement interests. As part of a discussion moderated by former Covington cybersecurity attorney Jeff Kosseff, Rosenstein’s remarks discussed cyber issues facing law enforcement with…
The End of Privacy
Andrew Burt, chief privacy officer and legal engineer at Immuta, and Dan Geer, chief information security officer at In-Q-Tel, write: We learned on Tuesday that three billion Yahoo email accounts were compromised in 2013. In early September, it was Equifax’s 143 million credit reports. Just a few months before that, we learned 198 million United…