Without Anonymity, Free Speech Does Not Exist
Politicians and bureaucrats who clamp down on anonymity sometimes claim that an absence of anonymity has no adverse effect on freedom of speech. This is an outright lie; without anonymity,…
General Privacy News
Does It Take A Disaster For The Public To Wake Up To The Mass Surveillance?
It seems there needs to be a major wiretapping disaster for the public to wake up to the fact that freedom of speech and privacy are essentially gone. Seeing how…
Why I Won’t Invest In Biometrics: Privacy Disaster Waiting To Happen
There has been a rather high financial interest in biometric security solutions for the past few years. I'm very sceptical of biometric authentication solutions - they're a privacy disaster waiting…
When Very Important Principles Collide
There is a couple of very important principles that build what we consider a modern democracy: freedom of speech, freedom of the press, privacy of citizens, transparency and accountability of…
Why Today’s Wiretapping Is Entirely Unlike Yesterday’s
Wiretapping has expanded grotesquely without lawmakers being aware of it, just by law enforcement demanding the apparent ability to wiretap online conversations. What nobody talks about is that if you're…
NSA And Associates Have Already Killed Freedom Of The Press
The NSA and its accomplices have killed whistleblower protection by tracking every communication that takes place. In doing so, they have killed the free press. There is no longer any…
We Know People Prefer Terrorism, Privacy, And Uncertainty Over Safety, Crimelessness, And Jobs – To The Point Of Risking Their Lives To Get That Privacy
It's hard to do sociopolitical studies to see whether people prefer civil liberties at the price of terrorism and unemployment, or safety and job security at the price of privacy.…
Politicians Are Ridiculously Dishonest When They Justify Invasion Of Privacy By The World Being More Dangerous
The world is a much safer place now than in previous years. In the 1980s, the threat was total annihilation of the entire world, and today, it's some terrorists blowing…
I Can’t Discuss Political Work With Colleagues Over The Phone Any More. How Did It Come To This?
When I grew up, we knew that the countries east of the Iron Curtain had secret agencies that spied on their own citizens, and we were taught that it was…
Gmail Privacy Proxy: Right Idea, Wrong Execution
Today, Google Mail announced that they will be proxying images received through GMail through their safer, faster proxy servers. At first glance, this appears to be an amazing step in…