Finishing up the job from the previous two earlier this week – enjoy!
Featured:
4/2016: ReCon: Revealing and Controlling Privacy Leaks in Mobile Network Traffic
4/29: U.S. High Court Approves Rule Change to Expand FBI Hacking Power
4/28: Google’s vision of the future is a smart assistant that follows you everywhere
4/28: The Critical Hole at the Heart of Our Cell Phone Networks
4/27: Former Tor Developer Created Malware To Hack Tor Users For The FBI
4/27: Whistleblower Snowden Gets Big Screen Treatment
4/27: A Complete Guide To The New ‘Crypto Wars’
4/27: Hacker Lexicon: What Is HTTPS?
4/26: Two Tips to Keep Your Phone’s Encrypted Messages Encrypted
4/25: Congress demands to know how many citizens are being spied on
4/21: National Security Letters are now constitutional, judge rules
4/19: US congressman calls for investigation into vulnerability that lets hackers spy on every phone
4/16: Drone-Shooting is Now a Federal Crime, FAA Confirms
4/16: 8 ways to protect your privacy online
4/12: Uber claims US regulators collected data from 11m passengers
4/10: Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists
4/8: CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA
4/6: FBI Telling Congress How It Hacked iPhone
4/6: Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn’t What It Used To Be
3/3: How Math Geeks Almost Doxxed Banksy
Local:
Local speaker – June 2: Atlas Distinguished Speaker Series with Security Expert Dr. Zvi Guterman and Atlas CEO Jordan Ritter
4/29: Seattle’s Food Waste Law Is Working, and It’s Not Because of the Garbage Snooping
4/27: Seattle Compost Rule Thrown Out by Judge as Unconstitutional
4/25: Spy Chief Complains That Edward Snowden Sped Up Spread of Encryption by 7 Years
4/21: Police body cameras in Spokane don’t encourage better citizen behavior, study says
4/19: How Washington state became the ‘Wild West’ for drone use by law enforcement
4/15: Lawsuit: Seattle compost ordinance is rotten
4/14: Interview: Why Microsoft is suing the U.S. Justice Department over cloud secrecy
3/9: Public universities don’t reveal how student data is shared with local law enforcement and feds
Govt:
4/29: Rule 41 would make it easier for the government to carry out hacks
4/29: Michigan lawmakers want to jail you for life for hacking cars
4/28: Senators play terror card to lobby public for backdoor crypto legislation
4/28: Top Security Experts Say Anti-Encryption Bill Authors Are ‘Woefully Ignorant’
4/27: With Finality, F.B.I. Opts Not to Share iPhone-Unlocking Method
4/26: Warrantless Surveillance in Terror Case Raises Constitutional Challenge
4/25: More questions than answers, literally, from America’s privacy rules
4/22: Stonewalled by NSA, Members of Congress Ask Really Basic Question Again
4/22: Spy Chief Pressed For Number Of Americans Ensnared In Data Espionage
4/22: Schools are helping police spy on kids’ social media activity
4/21: The FBI Spent More Than $1 Million to Hack One Potentially Useless Phone
4/20: US government sued by activists looking for backdoor smoking gun
4/19: Legislature weighs more disclosure for police body cameras (CA)
4/14: The CIA Is Investing in Firms That Mine Your Tweets and Instagram Photos
4/14: FBI Tried To Defeat Encryption 10 Years Ago, Files Show
4/13: Secure Cars, but Not Phones? Government Doublespeak on Cybersecurity
4/12: El Reg forces NSA to act
4/7: The US Government’s domestic spy-planes take weekends and holidays off
4/6: Spy Tool Ruling Inches the Stingray Debate Closer to the Supreme Court
4/5: Stingray ruling could challenge hundreds of Baltimore convictions
3/31: FCC to tackle consumers’ Internet privacy rules
3/30: Oregon senator threatens to filibuster any attempt to weaken encryption
3/22: Idaho mom who sued Obama over illegal surveillance loses at appellate court
3/22: FTC’s privacy champion Julie Brill steps down
3/18: Chelsea Manning: government anti-leak program a ‘blank check for surveillance’
3/17: Tim Cook: FBI’s claims of weakened surveillance powers are ‘a crock’
Policy:
4/2016: You Can’t Escape Data Surveillance In America
4/29: It’s our business they’re doing — let us in!
4/29: The House Votes Unanimously to Strengthen Email Privacy
4/22: On Encryption Battle, Apple Has Advocates in Ex-National Security Officials
4/20: Weakening the security of our devices in the name of fighting terrorism doesn’t make us safer
4/8: Surveillance Debate Gets a Needed Dose of Racial Perspective
4/5: We Live In The Dark Ages of Internet Security, Says Kaspersky Labs CEO
4/3: Senator: let’s fix “third-party doctrine” that enabled NSA mass snooping
3/18: Here’s Why the Feds and Tech Companies Can’t Compromise Over Your Phone
3/15: FBI v. Apple is a security and privacy issue. What about civil rights?
3/30: Senator Wyden recalls SOPA fight in bid to defeat encryption-weakening efforts
3/29: In the wake of Apple v FBI, we need to address some uncomfortable truths
3/21: Why we should fear a cashless world
3/5: NY Times Blasts WH Privacy Bill
Overseas:
4/29: Google AI Has Access To 1.6M People’s NHS Records
4/22: UK spy agencies store sensitive data on millions of innocent people, with no safeguards from abuse
4/21: How innocent people ‘of no security interest’ are mere keystrokes away in UK’s spy databases
4/20: Documents Reveal Secretive U.K. Surveillance Policies
4/20: German Court Rules Antiterrorism Laws Partly Unconstitutional
4/14: European parliament approves tougher data privacy rules
4/13: Federal police admit seeking access to reporter’s metadata without warrant
4/11: European court to consider legality of UK surveillance laws
4/9: Revealed: immigration officers allowed to hack phones
4/4: Labour demands more privacy safeguards in new surveillance laws
4/4: British mobile phone users’ movements ‘could be sold for profit’
3/30: Internet users don’t understand security or privacy, says survey
Tech:
4/28: Mozilla slings Firefox patches at flaw found by GCHQ’s infosec arm
4/22: Facebook: 1m Tor users
4/21: Stop laughing: Azure can analyse your mood in a crowd
4/14: A Scheme to Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working
4/14: Google’s Eddystone beacons offer a privacy-focused way to track your stuff
3/29: Teen develops Mutter Mail privacy app
3/22: Banks Are Using Biometrics to Detect Scammers
3/19: This Bank Wants to Be Your Best Friend
Books/Media/Misc:
4/28: The Hacker Wars
4/16: Scheer Intelligence: Jason Leopold and the power of FOIA
4/1: The Artist Using Museums to Amplify Tor’s Anonymity Network