data collection, national security policy, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized, video
John Oliver has an excellent segment on data brokers and surveillance capitalism. Powered by WPeMatico
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data collection, interviews, nsa, Security technology, Uncategorized
MIT Technology Review published an interview with Gil Herrera, the new head of the NSA’s Research Directorate. There’s a lot of talk about quantum computing, monitoring 5G networks, and the problems of big data: The math department, often in conjunction with the computer science department, helps tackle one of NSA’s most interesting problems: big data. … Read More “Interview with the Head of the NSA’s Research Directorate” »
COVID-19, data collection, fraud, healthcare, Security technology, Uncategorized
Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a bunch of writing about what seems to be fake COVID-19 testing sites. They take your name and info, and do a nose swab, but you never get test results. Speculation centered around data harvesting, but that didn’t make sense because it was far too labor intensive for … Read More “Are Fake COVID Testing Sites Harvesting Data?” »
anonymity, courts, data collection, data protection, e-mail, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized
After being compelled by a Swiss court to monitor IP logs for a particular user, ProtonMail no longer claims that “we do not keep any IP logs.” Powered by WPeMatico
data collection, de-anonymization, geolocation, privacy, pseudonymity, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
This is important: Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill was general secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), effectively the highest-ranking priest in the US who is not a bishop, before records of Grindr usage obtained from data brokers was correlated with his apartment, place of work, vacation home, family members’ addresses, and more. […] The … Read More “De-anonymization Story” »
cell phones, data collection, data mining, de-anonymization, geolocation, privacy, Security technology, surveillance, Uncategorized
A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. Vice has a good analysis: The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how the chance to wield that power has trickled down from corporations and intelligence agencies to essentially any sort of disgruntled, unscrupulous, or dangerous individual. A growing … Read More “Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest” »
data collection, data protection, privacy, Security technology, Uncategorized
First California. Then Virginia. Now Colorado. Here’s a good comparison of the three states’ laws. Powered by WPeMatico