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Privacy News Update, 11-3-15
Featured:
11/2015: If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy
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
9/26: 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:
10/7: 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: 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
9/15: 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
10/18: U.K.’s Mounting, Controversial Video 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
9/28: 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
Privacy News Update, 7-11-15
Featured:
7/10: The rise of the new Crypto War
7/10: Wolverton: New, smarter light bulbs do more than just turn on
7/10: Carmakers to Tech Partners: Keep Your Hands Off Our Data
7/10: UK Privacy Advocate Caspar Bowden Dies
7/8: Manhattan DA: iPhone Crypto Locked Out Cops 74 Times
7/8: FBI, Justice Dept. Take Encryption Concerns to Congress
7/7: A list of the well-known politicians who have defended Edward Snowden
7/7: Security Experts Oppose Government Access to Encrypted Communication
7/7: Is the Obama administration softening on Edward Snowden?
7/7: Eric Holder Says DoJ Could Strike Deal With Snowden; Current AG Takes Hard Line
7/7: Senate Advances Plan To Make Email and Social Sites Report Terror Activity
7/5: Coming soon to your St. Paul library: Data tracking
7/5: Encryption’s holy grail is getting closer, one way or another
7/5: Steer clear of low-tech hacks: How to keep your information safe
7/3: Student sues Fordham over demand for mental health records
7/2: WikiLeaks drops new set of secret TISA docs: Yep, no one agrees
7/2: Marketers’ Next Trick: Reading Buyers’ Minds
7/1: NSA’s spying on UN and others detailed in newly published documents
7/1: This Online Anonymity Box Puts You a Mile Away From Your IP Address
6/30: 7 Technologies to Track People
6/30: Why I Walked Out of Facial Recognition Negotiations
6/30: MIT’s Bitcoin-Inspired ‘Enigma’ Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data
6/30: Surveillance Court: NSA Can Resume Bulk Surveillance
6/30: Stanford Starts the ‘Secure Internet of Things Project’
6/29: Lincoln Chafee Adds a Proposal to the 2016 Debate: ‘Let’s Bring Edward Snowden Home’
6/29: Want to shoot down a drone? It’ll cost you, Modesto man learns
6/29: When a Company Gets Sold, Your Data May Be Sold, Too
6/26: Cisco Security Appliances Found To Have Default SSH Keys
6/26: MAC address privacy inches towards standardisation
6/25: Snapchat Still May Not Be as Safe as You Think
6/23: Low-tech ways you can protect your privacy online
6/23: Why Jeb Bush Wants the United States to Be More Like Estonia
6/23: Google cures Chrome security flaws in fresh update
6/23: Cars that can read your mind — through the steering wheel
6/23: New Snowden Leaks Show NSA Attacked Anti-Virus Software
6/22: Allstate Patents Physiological Data Collection
6/22: U.S. Supreme Court sides with innkeepers on right to privacy
6/17: FBI aerial surveillance revelations prompt backlash from US lawmakers
6/12: Government’s Secret Surveillance Court May Be About to Get a Little Less Secret
6/8: June 8, 1949: George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Published
6/1: NSA Reform? No Way! Scott Walker Wants ‘Something Closer to the Patriot Act’
Local:
6/23: The future of police video: Inside the Seattle PD’s workshop on wearable cameras
Govt:
7/9: Privacy campaigners question credibility of NHS ‘endorsed’ apps
7/8: Amtrak Is Urged to Install Cameras to Monitor Engineers
7/8: Sheriff’s office wants funds for body cams(Houston, TX)
7/7: Utah lawmakers look at passing statewide body camera rules
7/7: Pennsylvania court rules police videos can be public records
7/6: New Mexico lawmakers discuss drone regulations
7/4: Gov. Walker and Wisconsin GOP Retreat on Open Records Limits
7/3: Bill would allow cameras in Illinois nursing homes
7/1: Federal wiretaps down slightly, encryption impact decreases
6/25: We need to know about the Internet of Things, say US Senators
6/22: Privacy group asks FTC to investigate Uber
6/12: The FCC will now take your net neutrality complaints
6/4: Newly revealed NSA surveillance program draws support, ire
Policy:
7/10: Should Google be forced to bring the right to be forgotten to the U.S.?
7/7: Encryption debate shows Silicon Valley takes power back from feds
7/7: Automakers need to make security ‘part of the conversation’
7/5: Forget Bitcoin — What Is the Blockchain and Why Should You Care?
7/4: Readers React – Why can’t we watch the police?
7/2: Do Privacy Concerns Really Change With The Internet Of Things?
7/2015: ICYMI: June’s #maketechhuman Debate Tackled Google, NSA, and Cyberwarfare
6/30: Data Policy 101: What Businesses And Consumers Need to Know About Privacy
6/25: There’s no law to prevent intelligence agencies using private data. That has to change
6/23: ‘Fear of One Company Knowing Too Much About Us’ and Other Privacy Concerns
6/22: Privacy is awesome, in theory: Column
6/20: Google’s backward step on Android app privacy
6/11: Policing Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
6/10: Bridging Policy Silos in Digital Field
6/2: Internet privacy lawsuits, once all the rage, fizzle out
Overseas:
7/8: China Mulls Privacy Protection, Further Curbs on Internet
7/8: EU ombudsman slams Commish handling of German ePrivacy laws
7/5: Theresa May Named UK’s Internet Villain of the Year
7/3: Germany Wants Quick Clarification of New NSA Spy Allegations
7/3: Russian Parliament Approves Internet Privacy Bill
7/3: Angry Austrian takes a hit in David and Goliath Facebook battle
7/2: French privacy cops snarl at websites over crap EU cookie warnings
7/2: CNIL Enforces Cookies Rules in France
7/2: Privacy watchdog ICO slashes its fines in half
7/1: UK Gets Ironic by Spying on Amnesty International
6/26: US tech companies still not doing enough to help police and spies, claims UK
6/25: U.K. MPs Debate Judicial Authorization For Intercept Warrants
6/25: France, Up In Arms Over NSA Spying, Passes New Surveillance Law
6/24: Privacy advocates descend on proposed domain name change
6/24: Three-way EU Big Data privacy wrestling match kicks off
6/23: GCHQ: Security software? We’ll soon see about THAT
6/22: Oi, UK.gov, your Verify system looks like a MASS SPY NETWORK
6/22: GCHQ didn’t illegally spy on Brit NGOs, tribunal rules
6/19: Australia seeks rules for ‘peacetime norms’ in cyberspace
6/11: ‘Big Parenting’: How data and technology are changing our families
Tech:
7/11: Like gym memberships, enthusiasm for fitness trackers drops
7/10: Would you pay $5 for an ad-free Internet?
7/9: How to see the photos your friends are hiding on Facebook
7/6: Hacking Team Breach Shows a Global Spying Firm Run Amok
7/6: Farm Use of Drones to Take Off as Feds Loosen Restrictions
7/3: PureVPN calls pure BS on VPN insecurity study
7/1: Script-blocker NoScript lets in ANYTHING from googleapis.com
7/1: Amazon’s New SSL/TLS Implementation In 6,000 Lines of Code
6/29: Athletes adjusting to cameras all over arenas, stadiums
6/28: Where Are The Invisible Apps?
6/23: Parrot’s New MiniDrones Conquer Air, Land…and Sea
6/23: Google eavesdropping tool installed on computers without permission
6/23: Seven tips for securing your Facebook account
6/19: The Arlo and Flir FX security cameras: plug-and-play, mobile ready omnipresence
6/18: Your smartphone could have serious security flaws
6/17: Nest Cam keeps a high-def eye and ear on your home: First Look
6/8: Apple to require 6-digit passcodes on newer iPhones, iPads under iOS 9
5/15: Freightliner wants to know if we’re ready for autonomous trucks
Books/Media/Misc:
Privacy News Update, 4-25-15
Featured:
4-3: In New Video, Congressman Explains Why His Fellow Lawmakers Couldn’t Be Trusted with NSA Oversight
4-3: The Unlikely Effort To Build a Clandestine Cell Phone Network
4-3: Is Big Brother Watching Our Campuses?
4-2: TrueCrypt’s Security Audit Is Finally Done, with (Mostly) Good Results
4-2: Trevor Paglen’s photos put government spying in spotlight
3-31: How to opt out of Verizon’s ‘supercookie’ tracking program
3-31: Tech companies are sending your secrets to crowdsourced armies of low-paid workers
3-27: Periscope’s Future of Citizen Journalism Tested on Its First Day
3-26: Deployment of Controversial Urban Sensor System Aided by Aggressive Lobbying
3-25: As the Snowden leaks began, there was “fear and panic” in Congress
3-26: Passphrases That You Can Memorize — But That Even the NSA Can’t Guess
3-25: More Than 20 States Ask Court to Keep RadioShack From Selling Customers’ Personal Data
3-25: NSA Doesn’t Need to Spy on Your Calls to Learn Your Secrets
3-25: Yahoo rejected only 5 percent of government data requests in United States
3-24: State Laws Start Catching Up to Police Phone Spying
3-24: When your car spies on your mechanic
3-24: Public Records Request Returns 4.6M License Plate Scans From Oakland PD
3-23: Stingray snared him, now he helps write rules for surveillance device
3-19: Data and Goliath: Four Ways You Can Protect Yourself From Digital Surveillance
3-12: How Harper’s “anti-terror” bill ends privacy in Canada
Local:
4-2: Court: Investigation Of Public Employees Not Private
4-3: Banning speech close to home
3-23: WaLeg Day 71: Voting rights, marijuana, mental health, drones. . .
Govt:
4-3: NSA’s Former General Council Talks Privacy, Security, and Snowden’s ‘Betrayal’
4-3: DHS Wants Access To License-plate Tracking System, Again
4-2: Snowden, PRISM fallout will cost U.S. tech vendors $47 billion, less than expected
4-2: Lawmaker, ACLU push bill on police license plate readers
4-2: Texas bill would bar gun ownership status in medical record
4-2: The FBI Has Its Own Secret Brand of Malware
4-2: Legislature OKs voluntary REAL ID driver’s licenses
4-2: Snapchat got more than 400 legal requests for user data in 4 months
4-1: How Big Business Is Helping Expand NSA Surveillance, Snowden Be Damned
3-31: LAPD expects to start deploying body cameras this summer
3-31: Supreme Court Rules Government GPS Trackers Can Break Fourth Amendment
3-31: Pentagon Personnel Now Talking on ‘NSA-Proof’ Smartphones
3-30: Group blasts governor over proposed privacy amendments
3-30: Supreme Court questions involuntary human GPS monitoring
3-30: Feds Demand Reddit Identify Users of a Dark-Web Drug Forum
3-30: NSA Considered Ending Phone Spying Before the Edward Snowden Leaks
3-27: Police body camera bill clears Connecticut committee
3-27: FAA, Anchorage police investigate drone complaints
3-27: This Is How TSA Decides if You Might Be Acting Like a Terrorist
3-26: As crypto wars begin, FBI silently removes sensible advice to encrypt your devices
3-26: Arizona House revives effort to meet REAL ID standards
3-26: Privacy Critics Go 0-2 With Congress’ Cybersecurity Bills
3-26: Google joins Apple, others in calling for spying controls, as Patriot Act vote nears
3-26: Court Accepts DOJ’s ‘State Secrets’ Claim to Protect Shadowy Neocons: a New Low
3-26: FBI Denies Intentionally Deleting Encryption Tips from Its Website
3-25: Amazon’s drone approval obsolete
3-25: California bill requires warrant for stingray use
3-25: Latest Assault on Net Neutrality Launched at Telecom Industry-Funded Think Tank
3-25: PATRIOT Act axed, NSA spying halted … wake up, Neo, it’s just a dream in the US House of Reps
3-25: Wisconsin lawmakers discuss regulation of drones
3-24: Bill would impose privacy restrictions on Nevada drones
3-24: To explain stingrays, local cops cribbed letter pre-written by FBI
3-24: $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed As “Junk Science”
3-24: House Panel Tries to Ease Privacy Fears With New Cybersecurity Legislation
3-23: In Congress, New Attention To Student-Privacy Fears
3-22: Key Democrat: Congress Won’t Tackle NSA Reform Before Cybersecurity
3-16: ICE Tells Reporter Its Secretive Drone Program Isn’t Newsworthy
Policy:
4-6: Is Privacy Obsolete?
4-3: When must search engines concede the “right to be forgotten”?
4-2: When Will the NSA Stop Spying on Innocent Americans?
4-2: Getting past the zero-sum game online
4-2: Using Patient Data to Democratize Medical Discovery
3-31: Why ‘The Nation’ Is Suing the Federal Government
3029: Acceptance of a semi-public digital life worries some privacy advocates
3-29: Acceptance of a semi-public digital life worries privacy advocates
3-29: Ignorance could be bliss for next generations of business
3-24: How smartphone users are making silly and unsafe choices
Overseas:
4-2: South Korea’s Invasion of Privacy
4-2: Britain Used Spy Team to Shape Latin American Public Opinion on Falklands
3-31: Encryption is the REAL threat – Head Europlod
3-31: Thanks for the data retention, tech sector
3-31: Facebook ‘tracks all visitors, breaching EU law’
3-30: Mexico’s Journalists Grab a Tech Shield as their Fight Against the Establishment Escalates
3-30: Encrypted communication ‘biggest problem’ in tackling terrorism, Europol warns
3-30: New Canadian Counterterrorism Law Threatens Environmental Groups
3-27: Telstra begins preparing for data-retention regime
3-27: Snowden meets Swedish lawmakers in Moscow
3-27: Google Loses Bid to Block U.K. Users’ Breach-of-Privacy Lawsuit
3-27: UN sets up privacy rapporteur role in wake of Snowden leaks
3-26: Inquiry Launched into New Zealand Mass Surveillance
3-26: Australia outlaws warrant canaries
3-26: New data world order: government can read every Australian like an open book
3-25: Connected cars perfect for harvesting personal data, report warns
3-25: Location-tracking resolution not in data-retention Bill scope: Brandis
3-25: Netanyahu’s Spying Denials Contradicted by Secret NSA Documents
3-24: Facebook data privacy case to be heard before European Union court
3-24: A Conversation About Bill C-51: How the Anti-Terrorism Bill Undermines Canadian Privacy
3-23: Documents Reveal Canada’s Secret Hacking Tactics
3-22: UK Government Admits Intelligence Services Allowed To Break Into Any System
3-19: Why the cookies law wasn’t fully baked – and how to avoid being tracked online
Tech:
4-4: How to stay safe online: CNET’s security checklist
4-3: Keep snapping selfies, says Snapchat: Cops NEVER ask us for ’em
4-3: Facebook suggests more privacy tips for keeping user accounts secure
4-3: Will Smart Clothing Amp Up Your Workout?
4-3: Microsoft Will Remove “Do Not Track” As The Default Setting In Its New Browsers
4-2: TrueCrypt audit shows no evidence of NSA backdoors
4-2: Invizbox (hands-on): Another flawed Tor “privacy” router debuts
4-1: Chevrolet’s 2016 Malibu is smarter, lighter, and keeps tabs on your kids
3-30: AT&T wants $139 a month, or your privacy, for superfast Internet
3-27: AT&T’s plan to watch your Web browsing—and what you can do about it
3-25: Uber To Turn Into a Big Data Company By Selling Location Data
3-23: Roar of Bombers Replaced by Drone Buzz in North Dakota
3-23: Gyroscope Wants To Help You Track Everything About Yourself And Share It With The World
3-23: Cisco SPA300/500 IP Phones Vulnerable To Remote Eavesdropping
3-19: Opera Buys SurfEasy To Add Secure VPN Services To Its Browser Software
Books:
3-31: Data and Goliath, book review: A handbook for the information age
3-30: Book Review: Future Crimes
3-24: ‘We The People Have A Lot Of Work To Do’ Says Schneier In A Must-Read Book On Security And Privacy
Privacy News Update, 1-17-15
Featured:
Jan 10: CISPA: The Awful Anti-Privacy Law That Won’t Prevent Another Sony Hack
Jan 9: Q&A: On the Untouchable ‘Lords of Secrecy’
Jan 6: With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
Jan 6: Exciting progress towards surveillance-resistant email
Jan 5: FBI says search warrants not needed to use “stingrays” in public places
Jan 2: The 5 Cases That Could Pit the Supreme Court Against the NSA
Dec 30: How the internet’s engineers are fighting mass surveillance
Local:
Jan 14: Is red-baiting getting a 21st Century makeover in Olympia?
Jan 11: Washington state licenses, IDs soon need to meet tougher standards
Dec 31: Police body camera pilot ends; review and implementation next
Dec 19: Editorial: Consider the big picture of police camera issue
Govt:
Jan 10: Obama to focus on cybersecurity next week
Jan 10: Sony post-mortem: Obama lobbies for new legal powers to thwart hackers
Jan 9: So: Will we get net neutrality? El Reg decodes FCC boss Tom Wheeler
Jan 8: White House Responds To Petition To Fire Aaron Swartz’s Prosecutor
Jan 8: U.S. Lawmaker to Revive Cyber Information-Sharing Bill: Report
Jan 8: Official: NSA will lead fight against future hacks
Jan 8: Guilty plea ends stingray-fueled Baltimore murder-for-hire case
Jan 8: One-on-one with FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez about the Internet of Things
Jan 7: Privacy law reduces student participation in drug survey
Jan 7: FAA grants two drone permits for agriculture, real estate
Jan 7: Border drones are ineffective, badly managed, too expensive, official says
Jan 6: FTC chief says gadget industry must prioritize privacy
Jan 6: Going postal: Reporter sues government for spying from USPS network
Jan 5: License plate readers back on San Carlos council agenda
Jan 5: CIA Watchdog to Step Down
Jan 2: Offshoring Data Won’t Protect It From The NSA
Policy:
Jan 9: Can The Privacy Revolution Prevail?
Jan 9: Magid: Connected devices at CES raise security, privacy and safety questions
Jan 8: ‘Citizenfour’ goes behind the scenes of Snowden’s surveillance release
Jan 8: The defenders of freedom
Jan 7: Cop: What you don’t get about policing
Jan 7: Privacy walls no match for new technologies
Jan 5: Parents must be able to protect their child from prying eyes
Jan 4: The Biggest Security Threats We’ll Face in 2015
Jan 3: Why Aren’t We Using SSH For Everything?
Dec 25: Is Your Christmas Present Spying on You?
Overseas:
Jan 17: Data Collection and Censorship Laws Proposed in UK and France
Jan 9: In Britain, Spy Chief Calls for More Power for Agency
Jan 9: EU legal advisers cast doubt on data retention legality
Jan 9: MI5 boss: We NEED to break securo-tech, get ‘assistance’ from data-slurp firms
Jan 8: US kills EU watchdog’s probe into EU cops sharing EU citizens’ data
Jan 7: Data retention: lawyers and telcos take aim at ‘ill-defined’ legislation
Jan 7: UK watchdog: Public should wise up about surveillance cameras
Jan 6: Ex-Microsoft Bug Bounty dev forced to decrypt laptop for Paris airport official
Jan 5: Even China’s Academy of Science thinks wearables are privacy problem
Jan 5: Finland gets tough on privacy, with new law to give Apple, Facebook messages total security
Jan 5: Intel self-censors as Russian free speech crackdown comes into force
Dec 17: Cybersecurity spending: Here’s where the money goes (UK)
Tech:
Jan 11: Can This Tiny European Startup Take Down Google?
Jan 10: Rise of connected homes raise security concerns
Jan 9: Spotlight search in OS X Yosemite exposes private user details to spammers
Jan 7: Baig: Drones invade CES 2015
Jan 6: HTTPS bent into the next super-cookies by researcher
Jan 6: Silent Circle taps Bill Conner as CEO
Jan 6: Tutanota releases iOS encrypted email app after notifying NSA
Jan 6: Browsing in privacy mode? Super Cookies can track you anyway
Jan 5: Nest Will Now Work With Your Door Locks, Light Bulbs and More
Privacy News update, 10-3-14
Govt:
10-4 – Why US Feds and g-men kick up a stink about a growing smartphone encryption trend
10-3 – Suspect appeals cellphone data to US Supreme Court
10-3 – Compromise needed on smartphone encryption
10-2 – The NSA and Me
10-2 – When sunshine doesn’t always disinfect the government
10-1 – Connecticut lawmakers mull drone regulations
10-1 – The Executive Order That Redefines Data Collection
10-1 – The Criminal Indictment That Could Finally Hit Spyware Makers Hard
10-1 – Cops Are Handing Out Spyware to Parents—With Zero Oversight
10-1 – Police-boosted parental control app is a privacy mess, says report
10-1 – Authorities Think About Telling You If You’re Watchlisted from Warrantless Spying
10-1 – Can you shoot down a drone on your land? New incident raises self-defense questions
10-1 – Wide Open Data: NYC taxi dump catches strip club Johns
10-1 – US top cop decries encryption, demands backdoors
9-30 – Creator of spying app arrested
9-30 – California Gov. Jerry Brown signs privacy, anti-spying bills
9-29 – Only Congress Can Crack Apple’s Spy-Proof IPhones
9-29 – The Ghost of Ronald Reagan Authorizes Most NSA Spying
9-28 – Governor vetoes bill that would have limited police use of drones
9-27 – Growing use of police body cameras raises privacy concerns
9-27 – L.A. wants court to revive law allowing motel guest registry searches
9-26 – How the NSA Profits Off of Its Surveillance Technology
9-26 – Insane Traffic Stop Tests ‘Show Me Your Papers’ Law
9-26 – Justice Department to ban profiling by federal law enforcement
9-26 – Microsoft releases new reports showing law enforcement requests
9-25 – FBI Director Criticizes Apple’s and Google’s Privacy Policies
9-22 – Apple Still Has Plenty of Your Data for the Feds
9-20 – Proposed Law Would Limit US Search Warrants For Data Stored Abroad
9-17 – Your iOS 8 Data is Not Beyond Law Enforcement’s Reach… Yet.
Overseas:
10-3 – Americans Don’t Care We Spied on You
10-3 – Singapore losing sight of privacy in next-gen tech ambitions
10-2 – Apple, Google mobe encryption good news… for TERRORISTS – EU top cop
10-1 – German data commish makes a Hamburger out of Google
10-1 – How two remote Arctic territories became the front line in the battle for internet privacy
10-1 – Germany’s Security Startups Leading A Global Demand For Online Data Privacy
9-30 – Opposition: we passed Australia’s ‘spook’s charter’ on PURPOSE
9-30 – Scrapping the Human Rights Act: What about privacy and freedom of expression?
9-29 – Telstra, Vodafone at odds over data retention
9-29 – Oracle plans German DCs to soothe NSA-ruffled nerves
9-26 – Storing metadata would cost ‘tens of millions of dollars’, says Vodafone
9-26 – Senators’ ignorance isn’t bliss with new surveillance laws
9-25 – Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina
9-25 – Australia’s spy agency to get power to tap unlimited devices
9-25 – Brandis: NO LIMIT to ASIO network taps
9-22 – Australia’s Prime Minister Gives a Master Class in Exploiting Terrorism Fears to Seize New Powers
Policy:
10-4 – ‘Encryption will make life very easy for criminals and terrorists’
10-3 – Self-defense against overflying drones
10-2 – The dark side of drones: Chris Anderson and Chad Copeland address privacy concerns
10-2 – Would You Trade Your Privacy for a Cookie? Plus More #Mustreads.
10-1 – Clear, thoughtful rules are needed for recordings by LAPD
9-29 – Why Americans expect privacy: An open letter to FBI Director James Comey
9-30 – A mini-op-ed on Apple’s new encryption policy
9-28 – Spies, avert eyes! Tim Berners-Lee demands a UK digital bill of rights
9-26 – Stanford Uni: Google cash leaves us entirely impartial and unbiased
9-25 – Commentary: Welcoming the drones
9-24 – Kevin Mitnick, Once the World’s Most Wanted Hacker, Is Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits
9-23 – The Cop That Blasted Apple’s New Encryption Got His Facts Backwards
9-23 – Cops Have No Right to Be Angry About the iPhone’s New Encryption
9-22 – Your location info is too revealing: data boffins
9-20 – The Demons Of On-Demand
Tech:
10-2 – Atlas snubbed! Ad blocker says it can kill Facebook’s stalker tech
10-2 – Facebook Announces Stricter Guidelines For Research And Experiments On Its Users
10-1 – Apple’s New Anti-Tracking System For iPhones Doesn’t Work, Researcher Claims
9-30 – Apple vs. Google: The Privacy Revolution Rumble
9-30 – Microsoft’s Asimov System To Monitor Users’ Machines In Real Time
9-30 – For better privacy, change these iOS 8 settings
9-29 – No black art to the Blackphone’s quest for smartphone privacy
9-29 – Wi-Fi Tracking: When Sniffing Becomes Snooping
9-26 – ‘What Stays in Vegas’ shines a light on the value of consumer data
9-26 – Report: iPhone Anti-Tracking Feature Only Works With Cell Data Off (Updated)
9-26 – Internet Drone Privacy Peril [100 Words Into The Future
9-25 – Meet Wedg, Another Post-Snowden Personal Cloud Device
9-25 – Cal State Dominguez Hills approves first large-scale test of Google Glass
9-22 – CloudFlare ditches private SSL keys for better security
9-22 – A Closer Look: Ways to hide, secure data on phones
9-22 – Notion’s Connected Sensors Aim To Serve You All Sorts Of Home Alerts
9-15 – Tim Cook Holds Firm On iMessage Security: It’s Encrypted, And We Don’t Have A Key
Privacy News Update, 7-25-14
enjoy…..#6
Overseas:
Jul 25: Russia publicly joins war on Tor privacy with $111,000 bounty
Jul 24: Dutch Court Says Government Can Receive Bulk Data from NSA
Jul 24: EU wants Google to extend “right to be forgotten” to global users
Jul 22: STILL no move by Brit data cops over Google’s 2012 privacy slurp
Govt:
Jul 25: FBI Studied How Much Drones Impact Your Privacy — Then Marked It Secret
Jul 24: Senator’s Bill Is Stricter on N.S.A. Than House’s
Jul 24: ACLU, S.F. settle warrantless cell phone search case
Jul 24: Wisconsin court backs police on cellphone data
Jul 24: Court allows use of “stingray” cell tracking device in murder case
Jul 24: President Obama Plans Action On Drone Privacy Regulation
Jul 23: White House caught secretly tracking Web visitors with sneaky spyware
Jul 22: WA State denies TVW request to film Capitol using drone
Jul 22: Obama sends top aides to Germany amid spying flap
Jul 22: Congress should act to close the metadata gaps
Jul 21: Obama, Senate make progress on NSA data-collection reform bill
Tech:
Jul 25: Apple smacked with privacy sueball over Location Services
Jul 25: How to defeat facial-recognition machines and look like a rock star
Jul 25: Your Right To Be Forgotten Beats Google’s Right to Remember
Jul 25: The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor’s Home
Jul 24: Google Cutting Links on Over Half of Privacy Requests
Jul 24: PlaceUs App Tracks and Records Daily Activities
Jul 24: White House working on privacy guidelines for consumer drones
Jul 23: EFF looses Privacy Badger to munch cookies and scripts
Jul 23: Apple responds to complaint over diagnostic ‘back doors’ in iOS
Jul 23: Dropbox Head Responds To Snowden Claims About Privacy
Jul 23: Vysk QS1 Is An Otterbox For The Privacy Freak
Jul 23: How Thieves Can Hack and Disable Your Home Alarm System
Jul 22: NEW, SINISTER web tracking tech fingerprints your computer by making it draw
Jul 22: Hackers Could Take Control of Your Car. This Device Can Stop Them
Jul 22: Black Hat Presentation On Tor Cancelled, Developers Working on Bug Fix
Jul 22: A New Form of Online Tracking: Canvas Fingerprinting
Jul 22: Tor developers vow to fix bug that can uncloak users
Jul 22: Edward Snowden’s New Role: Product Pitchman
Jul 22: EFF unveils secure, sharing-friendly, privacy-minded router OS
The Truth will (still) set you free….
it’s a pretty sad state of affairs when we have to rely on MAD Magazine to state the obvious – but i’ll take the truth where I can find it! – Number Six
Obama’s new Consumer Privacy proposal
Time will tell whether it’s a political ploy, a genuinely good first step, or something else. And as David Gerwitz and Dan Mitchell point out, it STILL lacks any sort of privacy protection (that is, restoring our privacy rights!) from the worst offenders (the US Government!) – again, time will tell……Number Six
Yahoo News:
White House Unveils Privacy ‘Bill of Rights’
ZDNet:
White House’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights is misleading, doesn’t solve the real problem
Yahoo Finance:
Big Tech, Obama And The Politics Of Privacy
CNN/Fortune:
The problem with Obama’s privacy ‘bill of rights’
The ACLU:
Time to Get Down to Business on Privacy
And the Google browser privacy saga continues….
This time, with Internet Explorer – but the plot thickens along the way… Number Six
From CNN Money:
Microsoft: Google violates our users’ privacy too
“…NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Last week, Google was caught circumventing Apple’s Safari browser privacy settings. Microsoft chimed in Monday with a “me too” complaint, saying that Google is also dodging around Internet Explorer’s privacy settings.
But the Microsoft/Google standoff is especially complicated, and spotlights the technical swampland that surrounds online privacy issues.
In a blog post, Microsoft browser chief Dean Hachamovitch revealed that Google bypasses a feature in IE designed to let users set their cookie preferences. “Cookies” are files that are used to follow users’ movements and log-ins as they travel through the Web.
Hachamovitch suggests that Google is purposefully tricking Microsoft’s browser into accepting cookies that users would have otherwise blocked. The implication is that Google could track some IE users even if their privacy settings ask Google not to. Google slammed Microsoft’s criticism, calling it disingenuous.
“It is well known — including by Microsoft — that it is impractical to comply with Microsoft’s request while providing modern web functionality,” Rachel Whetstone, Google’s head of policy, said in a written statement. “We have been open about our approach, as have many other websites.”
The problem is that Microsoft made an outdated and commonly ignored standard the cornerstone of its browser’s privacy controls……”