Mossad starts funding sociopathic startups aiming to deprive people of liberty
Mossad has started funding the worst of the worst of IT startups. Normally, a headline such as this would only be seen on very questionable websites, but the source for…
Surveillance
Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (19/21): Telescreens in our Living Rooms
The dystopic stories of the 1950s said the government would install cameras in our homes, with the government listening in and watching us at all times. Those stories were all…
ISPs a Greater Threat to Online Privacy than Facebook, Google, or the NSA: Survey
US residents believe that their internet service providers (ISPs) represent a greater threat to their online security than either Facebook or Google. That’s according to a new survey conducted by…
Researchers detail new 4G LTE vulnerabilities allowing spoofing, tracking, and spamming
4G LTE isn't nearly as secure or private as you think it is. Mobile privacy and security are both at risk. Researchers from Purdue University and the University of Iowa…
UK Court Delivers Blow to Mass Surveillance State, Win for Privacy Advocates
A UK court has dealt a winning hand to privacy advocates -- and a blow to the mass surveillance state -- through its ruling on the controversial Data Retention and…
Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (14/21): Our analog parents’ dating preferences weren’t tracked, recorded, and catalogued
Our analog parents' dating preferences were considered a most private of matters. For our digital children, their dating preferences is a wholesale harvesting opportunity for marketing purposes. How did this…
Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (13/21): Our digital children are tracked not just in everything they buy, but in what they DON’T buy
We've seen how our digital children's privacy is violated in everything they buy with cash or credit, in a way our analog parents would have balked at. But even worse:…
Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (12/21): Our parents bought things untracked, their footsteps in store weren’t recorded
In the last article, we focused on how people are tracked today when using credit cards instead of cash. But few pay attention to the fact that we're tracked when…
Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (11/21): Our parents used anonymous cash
The anonymous cash of our analog parents is fast disappearing, and in its wake comes trackable and permissioned debit cards to our children. While convenient, it's a wolf in sheep's…
Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights (8/21): Using Third-Party Services Should Not Void Expectation of Privacy
Ross Ulbricht handed in his appeal to the Supreme Court this week, highlighting an important Analog Equivalent Privacy Right in the process: Just because you're using equipment that makes a…