How will a Brexit affect your privacy?
Among all the questions talking about the consequences of a British exit from the European Union, one seems to have been unanswered: how does this affect your fundamental rights and…
General Privacy News
Dear Chief Justice John Roberts, Search and Seizure: Does Innocence Matter?
The United States Constitution’s 4th amendment supposedly protects us from illegal search and seizure. This constitutional right against illegal search and seizure has been tested time and again in the…
Join the EFF against the Rule 41 update which lets federal judges unconstitutionally hack you
A proposed amendment to Rule 41 of United States Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure could grant blatantly unconstitutional rights to American judges. The proposed new powers would allow US federal…
Can the previous owner of your security camera spy on you? Webcam privacy scare highlights Internet of Things security difficulties
Over the weekend, the security community heard rumors about a potential issue with the NETGEAR Internet of Things wireless security camera. A user reported to the privacy subreddit that after…
TPP, TTIP don’t seem to be coming around after all – here’s why
The two protectionist agreements masquerading as free trade agreements, TPP and TTIP, appear to be meeting serious resistance - TTIP in particular. This makes the entire coup attempt unlikely to…
What happens when private limitations on freedom of speech get endorsed and expanded by government?
The European Commission is requesting/requiring Facebook, Twitter, and others to police their networks against undesirable political opinions and bad speech. This is cause for concern on a number of levels.…
Vint Cerf imagines a self archiving internet – one that could lead to a more open future
What would a self archiving internet look like? At the recent Decentralized Web Summit hosted by the Internet Archive, Vint Cerf, one of the computer scientists hailed as a founding…
Thanks to TeLeScope, TLS Communication With Your Virtual Servers Can Now Be Unencrypted
Earlier this week, BitDefender demonstrated the TeLeScope technique, which allows an attacker to decrypt TLS communication between a target and a virtualized server. TLS stands for Transport Layer Security and…
As horrible as Internet surveillance is, the alternative could have been far worse
While the Internet has turned into a global surveillance machine, with only tech-aware and privacy-aware people opting out of the surveillance, it's important to remember that we could have had…
Privacy habits: Full-disk encryption goes from optional to very recommended
As US authorities decide they have the right to seize any data, the mandatory privacy suite expands: full-disk encryption goes from optional to very recommended, in addition to using a…