looong overdue, thanks for your patience …..
Featured:
5/20: Incensing critics, Google engineer ends push for crypto-only setting in Allo
5/20: New Surveillance System May Let Cops Use All Of The Cameras
5/19: Facebook scanned private messages to boost ‘likes,’ lawsuit claims
5/19: Google Is A Serial Tracker
5/19: American Military Technology Has Come Home—to Your Local Police Force
5/18: Developer Of Anonymous Tor Software Dodges FBI, Leaves US
5/16: Rule change may expand government surveillance powers, privacy advocates say
5/16: The Intercept Is Broadening Access to the Snowden Archive. Here’s Why
5/15: Everything We Know About How the FBI Hacks People
5/14: Privacy Fears Deterring Almost Half of American Households From Online Shopping
5/13: FBI bugged public spaces for years hoping to overhear a few illegal things
5/11: The FBI Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny Wiretapping Your Amazon Echo
5/10: The Fight Over NSA Internet Surveillance Is Heating Up Again
5/9: This App Can Tell You If Your iPhone Has Been Secretly Hacked
5/7: Spy agencies are pushed to reveal extent of U.S. surveillance
5/6: Facebook’s newest privacy problem: ‘Faceprint’ data
5/5: Mobile advertisers want to know exactly where you are. This company tells them.
5/2: How to Search the Deep Web Safely
4/29: You Can’t Escape Data Surveillance In America
4/29: Waze comes up with a fix for hack that let researchers track users’ movements
4/26: Two Tips to Keep Your Phone’s Encrypted Messages Encrypted
4/20: How To Preserve Your Privacy When Making Mobile Payments
4/17: Here’s a Truly Comprehensive Takedown of Mass Surveillance
4/15: An App That Tracks the Police to Keep Them in Check
4/1: Edward Snowden’s guide to internet privacy
3/20: Think you’re not being tracked? Now websites turn to audio fingerprinting to follow you
3/19: Senators seek to block expansion of FBI’s mass hacking powers
Local:
5/5: Judge allows most but not all evidence Portland police gathered from cameras on power poles
5/2: Seattle’s sanitation workers can no longer pry through trash without a warrant
4/30: Police cameras on power poles: Illegal ‘unblinking eyes’ or smart tricks of the trade?
4/19 Washington: the “Wild West” for surveillance drones
4/12: ‘Shameful and dangerous’: Civil rights group rips Black Lives Matter surveillance
4/5: How a spy probe wound up as a child porn prosecution
Govt:
5/20: FBI Plots Its Next Move in the Encryption Battle
5/20: Students may qualify for FOIA fee reductions, court rules
5/16: NSA Closely Involved in Guantánamo Interrogations, Documents Show
5/19: Giant wave of government data could be unleashed by proposed law
5/16: What It’s Like to Read the NSA’s Newspaper for Spies
5/12: FBI Director Is Upset You Can Communicate Securely on WhatsApp
5/12: Philadelphia Police Now Investigating Its Own Fake Google Maps Car
5/12: FBI expects more legal actions over encrypted devices
5/10: License plate reader proposal fails amid privacy concerns
5/10: Senate panel debates federal surveillance law set to expire in 2017
5/9: Twitter Blocks Feds From Data Mining Service
5/8: Illinois residents can sue Facebook for photo tagging, judge says
5/6: Hacker Lexicon: Stingrays, the Spy Tool the Government Tried, and Failed, to Hide
5/5: FBI Told Cops to Recreate Evidence From Secret Cell-Phone Trackers
5/4: Legal quirk enabling surveillance state expansion absent Congressional vote
5/3: NSA and CIA Double Their Warrantless Searches on Americans in Two Years
4/30: Security News This Week: The FBI Gets Creative to Avoid Disclosing Its $1M iPhone Hack
4/29: The Supreme Court Just Gave FBI the Power to Hack Innocent People
4/28: US Border Patrol Doesn’t Want a Wall—They Want Drones and Sensors
4/25: Congress demands to know how many citizens are being spied on
4/23: US authorities drop another iPhone fight after being given passcode
4/21: The FBI Spent More Than $1 Million to Hack One Potentially Useless Phone
4/20: Missouri lawmakers worry police technology invades privacy
4/20: Court to hear arguments over Indiana lawmaker email privacy
4/19: US congressman calls for investigation into vulnerability that lets hackers spy on every phone
4/14: Microsoft sues Justice Department over secret searches of customer data
4/14: Ron Wyden vows to filibuster anti-cryptography bill
4/14: An Attack on Privacy From the Senators Charged With Protecting It
4/14: This Very Common Cellphone Surveillance Still Doesn’t Require a Warrant
4/13: Line by line, how the US anti-encryption bill will kill our privacy, security
4/10: High-speed license plate cameras spark privacy concerns as they help solve crimes
3/29: FBI iPhone solution may not necessarily crack other cases
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
5/17: 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’
