Privacy News Update, 4-29-17

3/18: US government demands for vendors’ source code are nothing new – Whether you think the push to get source code is overreach or not, governments around the world have done it for years. Often, they just have to ask — or steal it.

3/16: Soon, feds will snoop on your social networks before granting security clearance

3/1: AG Lynch defends surveillance to tech industry gathering

Policy:

6/16: Eighth Circuit holds that accessing credit card magnetic stripe is not a ‘search’

6/7: The Fifth Amendment limits on forced decryption and applying the ‘foregone conclusion’ doctrine

5/23: Knock-knock. Who’s there? Everyone

5/21: Why people like Edward Snowden say they will boycott Google’s newest messaging app

5/20: High School Debaters Bring Surveillance, Encryption Arguments to Capitol Hill

5/20: New institute aspires to protect First Amendment in digital era

5/19: A look at digital habits of 13 year olds shows desire for privacy, face-to-face time

5/16: The Most Intriguing Spy Stories From 166 Internal NSA Reports

5/15: Needed: More Snowdens – Ex-intel analyst

5/13: Magid: Live video can go too far

5/7: Can Facebook Store Your Facial Biometrics? Lawsuit Says No

5/6: Mercury News editorial: FISA court lets feds snoop with free rein

5/6: Diana Diamond: City should be watching all those surveillance tools out there

5/2: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Why the U.S. needs better laws to balance privacy and national security

4/22: Blind deserve privacy, too

Overseas:

5/22: Press privacy finds its last redoubt on their lordships’ island of injunctions

5/20: Google Should Not Be Allowed to Secretly Collect Private Medical Data

5/19: Building a National Fortress in the Cloud: Stressing Germanness to reassure clients about security.

5/19: Google Fights Right-to-Be-Forgotten Fine at French Top Court

5/18: Cops, spies and journalists: Top Mountie Bob Paulson speaks outSpying by officers was not approved, RCMP commissioner says – so officers kept asking

5/17: Face Recognition App Taking Russia By Storm May Bring End To Public Anonymity

5/16: Spies Like Us – GCHQ, Britain’s equivalent of the NSA, has joined Twitter.

5/16: Why China Doesn’t Care About Privacy

5/13: Runkeeper background tracking leads to complaint from privacy watchdog

5/12: Spying on you using fake social media profiles: One Scots council could

5/11: Facebook tells Thai users their data not given to government

5/10: British Hacker Wins Court Battle Over Encryption Keys

5/10: Privacy warriors take legal action over UK gov’s right to hack

5/10: Investigatory Powers Bill: As supported by world’s most controlling men

5/9: India claims to have tool to defeat iPhone encryption

5/9: This privacy-focused messenger saw a 500% increase in downloads when Brazil banned WhatsApp

5/6: DeepMind has best privacy infrastructure for handling NHS data, says co-founder

5/3: UK.gov refuses to give surveillance commish enforcement powers

4/28: Paris Police Want to Fly Drones Over Crowds to Make Everyone Safer

4/25: Remain in the EU and help me snoop on the world, says Theresa May

4/22: Turnbull should force Australia to be open about data breaches

4/22: UK spy agencies store sensitive data on millions of innocent people, with no safeguards from abuse

4/22: British citizens to their government: the spies are among us

4/20: UK spy agencies have collected bulk personal data since 1990s, files show

4/15: Australia’s attacks on journalists’ sources are about politics, not national security

4/14: European parliament approves tougher data privacy rules

3/20: Internet usage monitoring becomes the norm in Brazil

Tech:

5/30: Gay Dating Apps Promise Privacy, But Leak Your Exact Location

5/21: Privacy fears: Panel has advice for drone operators

5/21: Oculus responds to Sen. Al Franken’s VR privacy questions

5/20: Drones hit home as some agents use sky-high views to market properties

5/20: Newly-released FAA data shows that Houstonians really love their drones

5/18: These people know the minute you get their emails. It’s creepy, but brilliant.

5/18: Google Home crashes Amazon Echo’s party

5/5: New Scanner Uniquely Identifies Gadgets Just From the Noise They Emit

5/4: How to evade the NSA: OpSec guide for journalists also used by terrorists

5/4: Disturbing Twitch recording may trigger site’s proactive police-report policy

4/26: Waze is an awesome driving app that also lets hackers stalk you

4/20: Google’s Waze says, ‘Nope, hackers can’t stalk you on our app’

2/4: Three ways encryption can safeguard your cloud files

Privacy News Update, 4-29-16

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

4/28: State court partly blocks Seattle trash recycling/composting requirements, because of risk of unconstitutional searches

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

3/5: New Edition of Determann

Privacy News Update – 11-21-15

Featured:

11/20: Law Enforcement Responding More Favorably To ACLU’s Recording App, But Some Still Think It Will Make Policing More Dangerous

11/19: University breaks silence on FBI payments to bring Tor users out of the shadows

11/18: The Koch intelligence agency

11/17: Is There Any Evidence In The World That Would Convince Intelligence Community That More Surveillance Isn’t The Answer?

11/16: Pathological: Surveillance State Defenders Use Their Own Failure In Paris To Justify Mass Surveillance

11/13: Snowden Or NSA; These 3 Questions Are Kryptonite For Data Privacy Scandals

11/12: Edward Snowden Explains How To Reclaim Your Privacy

11/12: Here’s how to see what Google’s sharing about you publicly

11/10: Congress Wants To Know How Government Agencies Are Using Stingray Phone Surveillance

11/10: Facebook messenger can now recognise faces, but will the EU allow it?

11/9: Even if you’re not using Facebook, Facebook is using you

11/9: Bill Adding A Warrant Requirement For Aerial Surveillance Introduced In The House

11/9: As Kids Go Online, New Tools For Parents To Spy

11/6: How Law Enforcement Can Use Google Timeline To Track Your Every Move

11/6: Ford: Our cars will give you control of your driver data

11/4: Congressman introduces bill to end warrantless Stingray surveillance

11/3: People’s Deepest, Darkest Google Searches Are Being Used Against Them

11/2: Berkeley council rewrites police Suspicious Activity Reports guidelines

11/2: What Happens When Your Lights, Appliances Are Connected To The Internet

11/2: Putting A Price On Privacy; The App That Offers You Military Grade Data Encryption

10/28: Runaway Surveillance Blimp Deflates Raytheon’s Hopes to Sell More

10/28: Judge rules man had right to shoot down drone over his house

10/24: Obfuscation: how leaving a trail of confusion can beat online surveillance

10/13: Five Tools For Online Privacy And Security

10/13: DARPA wants vanishing drones

Govt:

11/20: Drowned in data, whistleblowers speak of NSA’s “largest failure”

11/19: As Car Hacking Spurs Fears In Congress, Tesla And GM Push Back

11/17: Illinois Magistrate Judge Lays Down Ground Rules For Stingray Device Warrants

11/11: Hacked Data Obtained By The Intercept Highlights Wholesale Spying On Inmate, Attorney Privileged Communications

11/9: Federal judge halts NSA phone surveillance of plaintiffs

11/6: The FBI says it has given up on trying to get backdoors into encryption software

11/4: Federal prison system wants anti-drone technology

10/29: Court Rejects ACLU’s Plea to End Collection of Telephone Data Early

10/29: Privacy Groups Challenge Director of National Intelligence to Uphold Transparency Promise

10/26: The IRS Is Using the Same Spy Tech as the FBI

10/21: Image too good to be true? DARPA program targets image doctoring

10/27: Senate Rejects All CISA Amendments Designed To Protect Privacy, Reiterating That It’s A Surveillance Bill

10/27: FBI Director Finally Starts Answering Questions About Its Surveillance Flights Over US Cities

9/22: CIA details agency’s new digital and cyber espionage focus

Policy:

11/17: Why the CIA wanting encryption backdoors is a failure of leadership, not intelligence

11/17: User telemetry and encryption trade-offs need to be out in the open: Symantec CEO

11/13: University researchers are being accused of ethics violations for allegedly helping the police catch drug dealers and paedophiles

11/13: Here are 3 legal cases from the future

11/11: Microsoft and I can see that this blog post displeases you

11/10: Why The Supreme Court’s Pass On A Cellphone Warrant Case Means Your Privacy Remains At Risk

11/10: Forrester Predictions: Get Your Privacy House In Order, or 2016 Will Hit Your Business Hard

11/9: Modern genetics means you should say goodbye to privacy

11/7: Americans Aren’t Doing Enough to Protect Their Privacy Online

11/7: Privacy is starting to seem like a very 20th-century anomaly

11/1: Crypto is For Everyone—and American History Proves It

10/28: Wifi Networks Can Now Identify Who You Are Through Walls

10/25: This Is the Battle Over Policing the Deep Web

10/20: The CIA director was hacked by a 13-year-old, but he still wants your data

10/16: Six key challenges loom over car communication technology

10/15: Europe Leads In Global Privacy — Announcing Forrester’s 2015 Data Privacy Heat Map

10/9: The rise of the ‘digilantes,’ the internet’s superheroes

10/2: Washington Hardball

Overseas:

11/18: Brandis warns of even less privacy for Australians

11/17: France Already Expanded Surveillance Twice In The Past Year — Perhaps Expanding It Again Is Not The Answer?

11/3: Code Name for U.K. Probe of Snowden Reporting Revealed: “Operation Curable”

11/12: Europe, tech giants face off over consumer privacy

11/12: Turnbull’s mutual respect campaign to kick off with taking away privacy

11/12: A French retailer has started using overhead strip lights to track customers’ movements

11/11: Microsoft is building data centres in Germany to protect European users from US spying

11/11: Germany’s spy agency may have violated its constitution by monitoring a German diplomat

11/10: Congress moves to give Europeans stronger data privacy rights in the U.S.

11/9: Tech firms warn snooper’s charter could end strong encryption in Britain

11/8: David Davis: British ‘intellectually lazy’ about defending liberty

11/6: After Paris Attacks, Surveillance Remains A Key Issue In EU-U.S. Privacy Negotiations

11/5: Facial recognition database would give police ‘unprecedented’ access (AU)

11/5: The surveillance bill is flawed but at last we have oversight

11/5: Seven Major Takeaways From the U.K.’s Proposed Surveillance Rules

11/4: The UK government has revealed how it wants to spy on citizens

11/3: Europe, Still Angry at U.S. Spying, Prepares to Increase Its Own

11/2: Lord Carlile criticises proposals for judges to approve spying warrants

10/31: Don’t be fooled by spook propaganda. The state still wants licence to pry

10/29: Passports in the cloud? What could possibly go wrong? (AU)

10/28: C-51 Reform, TPP Top the List of “Real Change” Tech Policy Priorities

10/20: Real Change on Digital Policy May Take Time Under New Liberal Government

10/14: The Guardian view on surveillance: licence to pry on parliament

10/14: How the TPP Puts Canadian Privacy at Risk

Tech:

11/13: Vizio smart TVs watch you while you’re watching them. What’s the deal?

11/11: Blackphone 2 review: privacy doesn’t have to come at the cost of usability

11/9: The war on cash is advancing on all fronts

11/2: Stealth Mode? Built-In Monitor? Not All Body Cameras Are Created Equal

10/30: OK Google: Where Do You Store Recordings Of My Commands?

10/22: No Details Yet For New Civilian Drone Operators’ Registration System

10/19: More China App Store Headaches for Apple: Hundreds of Apps Found to Collect User Data

10/14: Hewlett-Packard, 3M Team Up to Build Privacy Screens Right Into Business Laptops

Media/Books/Misc:

9/29: The Above (movie)

Privacy News Update, 11-3-15

Featured:

11/2015: If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy

10/27: The Senate just passed a bill that could force tech companies to share your private messages with the government

10/26: Apple is refusing to unlock an iPhone 5s for US law enforcement

10/25: Where there is no police accountability, justice is tenuous….

10/24: Federal judge dismisses Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA mass surveillance program

10/20: ‘Your Genome Isn’t Really Secret,’ Says Google Ventures’s Bill Maris

10/19: How one Austrian student took on American tech companies over privacy — and won

10/19: License Plate Reader Companies Lose Case Seeking To Have Anti-ALPR Law Declared Unconstitutional

10/15: How the NSA can break trillions of encrypted Web and VPN connections

10/14: Entrepreneur donates $1 million to fight anti-terror law C-51

10/13: Verizon Is Watching: Company Expands Data-Tracking Program

10/13: No, Hillary, Edward Snowden Didn’t Have Whistleblower Protections

10/13: DARPA wants vanishing drones

10/11: Tech Firms Laud Obama’s Retreat on Encrypted-Data Law

10/9: California Approves A Sweeping Digital Privacy Law

10/8: Pittsburgh City Council seeks to ban drones from city parks

10/7: Private database lets police skirt license plate data limits

10/7: The Suit You Will Need to Avoid Surveillance in the Future

10/7: Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption

10/7: Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find “Nuts and Bolts” Info On Cookies & Tracking Mechanisms?

10/6: Google defends Android Auto’s data collection after critical Motor Trend report

10/5: Snowden: I’d go to prison to return to US

10/2: Homeland Security seizes Stockton mayor’s electronics at SFO

10/1: Hidden GPS devices to track suspects raise legal concerns

10/1: RFID chips in driver’s licenses. What could go wrong?

10/1: Chip And PIN Meets Facial Recognition: Chipping Away At Privacy, Pinning You Down In A Database

9/30: Microsoft ‘Addresses’ Windows 10 Privacy Concerns By Simply Not Mentioning Most Of Them

9/29: FBI and DEA Under Review For Misuse of NSA Mass Surveillance Data

9/29: How the FBI Hacks Around Encryption

9/29: Edward Snowden joins Twitter, immediately gets more followers than NSA

9/28: Covert Electronic Surveillance Prompts Calls for Australian ISPs Not Ready For Mandatory Data Retention Transparency

9/26: America’s most secretive court invites its first outsider

9/24: Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes

9/24: Postal Service Failed to Protect Personal Data in Mail Surveillance, Report Says

9/24: Snowden Treaty Launched: Effort To Get Countries To End Mass Surveillance

9/21: The Other Big Brother

9/17: Committee vote on police heat sensors signals cooperation between police, privacy activists

9/16: Library’s Tor relay—which had been pulled after feds noticed—now restored

9/11: Citi analysts have an idea they call ‘the Feed,’ and it could revolutionize the insurance industry

9/11: How the Government Surveils Cellphones: A Primer

9/11: Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over ‘Deep Cynicism’ of American Public

9/9: Siri is always listening. Are you OK with that?

9/8: Apple, Microsoft tussle with feds over access to user data

8/31: Are your apps acting creepy? New approach to phone security could tip you off

Local:

10/14: Microsoft looks to stop bike crashes before they happen, testing Minority Report-style predictive intelligence

10/12: City of Seattle unveils new privacy program to ‘build public trust’ about use of personal information

10/7: Inside the Seattle Police Department’s new real-time crime center

10/7: Researchers build extra brainy smart homes to monitor aging adults

10/2: Boeing drone helps fight Washington state wildfires in latest demonstration of UAV technology

9/21: Seattle to Get $600K Cut of Obama Administration’s Body Cam Program

9/18: Seattle using drivers’ cellphones to track traffic flow

9/18: Wyden, Bonamici draft legislation to guard student privacy after University of Oregon records leak

9/11: Police body cameras show more than just the facts

9/9: ‘Smart bus’ system gives Spokane riders real-time information

9/8: Law Professor: Tech Companies Are Our Best Hope At Resisting Surveillance

Govt:

10/29: Warrant to search phone did not allow opening folder unlikely to contain evidence sought, court rules

10/29: Fourth Circuit grants rehearing, eliminates split, on cell-site surveillance

10/29: Second Circuit declines to reach Fourth Amendment issues in bulk metadata program

10/28: In Congress, Drones Represent Money, Freedom — And A Security Threat

10/22: FBI director: Planes not for mass spying

10/21: Helicopter (and drone?) surveillance and the Fourth Amendment

10/21: 23andMe releases transparency report, revealing how often cops ask for customers’ DNA

10/20: Body Cameras Are Everywhere, But Recordings Remain Locked Up Tight

10/20: Apple CEO Defends Encryption, Opposes Government Back Door

10/16: Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA

10/16: You don’t need to tear up your boarding pass and eat it after you fly

10/10: New Jersey judge warns police videos will be kept secret

10/9: Brown rejects driver’s licenses to ease border crossings

10/9: California’s Paparazzi Have Had Their Wings Clipped A Bit

10/9: US boosts privacy protection on health insurance website

10/8: Obama administration opts not to force firms to decrypt data — for now

10/6: Thanks to the NSA, Data Sharing With Europe Just Got a Little Harder

10/6: Carson says he’s glad for Snowden revelations but questions methods

9/28: Police bid to keep most body camera footage private rejected

9/25: Lawmakers consider student social media privacy bill

9/25: In fascinating legal case, judge rules defendants can’t be forced to unlock their smartphones

9/22: Legislation Requiring Tech Industry To Report Terrorist Activity Dropped

9/22: Feds award $1 million grant to help purchase SAPD body cameras

9/21: George W. Bush Tried To Retroactively Declare Illegal, Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance Legal, Because He Said So

9/15: Minnesota cities press for body-camera footage restrictions

9/12: Austin officials approve funding for police body cameras

9/9: Director of national intelligence: Snowden forced “needed transparency”

9/9: City Of Boston Left License Plate Data Unprotected And Unencrypted

9/2: Indiana State Police won’t give up stingray records due to “terrorism” risk

8/27: City of San Jose Looking To Attach Automatic License Plate Readers To Garbage Trucks

8/24: Police Regularly Use Stingrays Without A Warrant To Find Petty Criminals, Then Try To Hide That Fact

Policy:

10/16: In 2016, if California cops get hacked, lose your license plate data, you can sue

10/14: Q.&A.: Guarding Personal Data From Abuse by Insiders

10/14: Living with Technology: Keeping an eye on digital security

10/13: Digital Privacy, in the U.S. and Europe

10/12: A Law That Hides Police Misconduct From the Public

10/9: European Ruling is Merely a Symbolic Victory for Privacy

10/7: The government and privacy advocates can’t agree on what ‘strong’ encryption even means

10/6: Verizon’s Sneaky Zombie Cookies Now Being Used Across The Entire AOL Ad Empire

9/25: A Q&A with Edward Snowden

9/16: Tech that hangs on your every word raises privacy questions

9/15: An elegy for privacy, common sense and John Gibson: Leonard Pitts

9/14: N.H. Public Library Reconsiders Support For Anonymous Internet Network Tor

Overseas:

11/1: Theresa May says ‘contentious’ parts of web surveillance plan dropped

10/20: Ireland’s privacy regulator is going to investigate Facebook after a landmark ruling by Europe’s highest court

10/18: U.K.’s Mounting, Controversial Video Surveillance

10/16: UK Politicians To Hold ‘Emergency Debate’ After Spy Tribunal Says GCHQ Is Permitted To Put Them Under Surveillance

10/15: Despite exposure, new nations joining cyberespionage game

10/15: Medical record privacy breaches an ‘epidemic’ in Alberta,’ says commissioner (CA)

10/12: Australian ISPs Not Ready For Mandatory Data Retention

10/12: Turnbull’s mutual respect campaign to kick off with taking away privacy (AU)

10/6: Critics raise data privacy concerns in Trans-Pacific Partnership deal (CA)

10/6: EU Privacy Ruling May Disrupt U.S. Tech Firms, Spy Programs

9/24: Thailand aims to build its own Great Firewall of Internet censorship

9/23: Russia’s Plan To Crack Tor Crumbles

9/22: Government-Mandated Parental Spyware Found To Be Leaking Personal Data At An Alarming Rate (SK)

9/14: Telco Giant Vodafone Looked At Journalist’s Phone Records To See Who Was Leaking Info To Her (AU)

9/13: Ask Slashdot: Best Country To Avoid Government Surveillance?

9/1: Turkey Arrests Journalists For Using Encryption

8/25: UK surveillance “worse than 1984,” says new UN privacy chief

8/25: Malaysia To Introduce RFID Tracking For Every Vehicle

Tech:

11/2: Dreading those drones

11/2: Barbie is back, but can she be trusted?

11/2015: Playing Defense Against the Drones

10/26: How to make sure no one can search through your old Facebook posts

10/23: Your anonymous cell phone data might be used to break up traffic jams

10/23: NFL wins federal approval to film with drones

10/19: Apple Suspends Hundreds of Apps For Stealing Personal Data From a Million Users

10/15: To boost privacy, Yahoo Mail eliminates need for passwords

10/14: Hotspot Shield Creator Is on a Mission to Outflank the Censors

10/13: The GranitePhone Thinks Your Privacy Is Worth $850

10/13: How To Find and Delete Everything You’ve Ever Said to Google Now

10/8: DuckDuckGo CEO calls out Google and says it’s ‘a myth you need to track people to make money’

10/7: FAA seeks $1.9M fine against drone photography company

10/4: 7 Questions To Ask Your Boss About Wellness Privacy

9/29: BlackBerry releases first photos of Android-powered Priv phone

9/29: Apple: Here’s how we try to protect your privacy

9/29: Phone makers aren’t doing enough to protect your privacy, says CEO of security-conscious GranitePhone

9/28: Microsoft reaffirms privacy commitment, but Windows will keep collecting data

9/27: Silent Circle Blackphone 2 review

9/24: IBM’s Watson Is Now Analyzing Your Vacation Photos

9/22: Lenovo Collects Usage Data On ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs

9/14: Fresh from Google Glass partnership, VSP eyes high-tech wearables

9/14: Invizbox Go aims to make mobile privacy painless over any Wi-Fi

9/14: Live-In Laboratory May Help Older Adults Live Independently Longer

9/8: This Fake Baby Car Seat Is Designed to Help Governments Spy on People

9/7: Apple’s Privacy Policies Are Keeping Data Scientists Away

8/31: Microsoft accused of adding spy features to Windows 7, 8

8/31: Google OnHub review—Google’s smart home Trojan horse is a $200 leap of faith

Misc/Media/Books:

10/19: Here’s how to keep your information private on the internet (video)

10/10: You Think the NSA Is Bad? Meet Former CIA Director Allen Dulles.

10/8: Part Exhibitionism, Part Surveillance

9/29: This Art Installation Tests How Much You Value Your Personal Data

9/20: Art that shows us what mass surveillance actually looks like

Cory Doctorow event from 7/28 (audio only)

Great conversation with Frank Catalano of the local site GeekWire. Ranges all over the place for tech, fiction (the event was sponsored by Clarion West) and Cory’s privacy-related activism – enjoy!

“….Here’s the Q&A portion of the Cory Doctorow in Conversation event I did to benefit the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop in Seattle on July 28, 2015. The audio was provided by Frank Catalano, who also conducted the interview….” MP3 link