Analysts and lawmakers warn FBI that ramifications over its demand that Apple unlock San Bernardino killer’s iPhone ‘could snowball around the world’ Currently Apple does NOT have the ability to grant access … Continue reading Apple encryption case risks influencing Russia and China, privacy experts say
“Ridiculously optimistic” machine learning algorithm is “completely bullshit,” says expert. Thousands of innocent people in Pakistan may have been mislabelled as terrorists by that “scientifically unsound” algorithm, possibly resulting in their untimely … Continue reading The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people | Ars Technica UK
The FBI has a lead. A prominent religious leader and community advocate is in contact with a suspected sleeper agent of foreign radicals. The attorney general is briefed and personally approves wiretaps … Continue reading What the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King says about modern spying.
The Home Office has refused to make Theresa May’s internet browsing history public under freedom of information rules, arguing that a request to do so is “vexatious”. The Independent requested the Home … Continue reading UK Home Office: Theresa May wants to see your internet history, so media thought only fair to ask for hers
Apart from the fact that it’s scary that your Google search history is readily available to the government (and your coworkers) making buying a backpack and a pressure cooker very dangerous, the Twitter … Continue reading Trending on Twitter #Found In My Search History
Anyone can become a successful lock pick — with the right tools. For those of you wanna-be Edward Snowdens who may need to get into locked rooms to gather evidence to back up … Continue reading How to pick locks via the Business Insider
…News emerging from Paris — as well as evidence from a Belgian ISIS raid in January — suggests that the ISIS terror networks involved were communicating in the clear, and that the data on their smartphones was not encrypted. European media outlets are reporting that the location of a raid conducted on … Continue reading After Endless Demonization Of Encryption, Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinated Via Unencrypted SMS
US and European officials have been quick to indict technology for the attacks – although they have yet to show how, or if, technology contributed. CIA director John Brennan, whose own personal … Continue reading US and European officials reignite ‘back door’ encryption debate after Paris
A UK-based researcher’s project shows the information that’ll be available about you without a warrant if the new Investigatory Powers Bill comes into force New law in the UK will require ISP’s … Continue reading Researcher’s public browsing history demos anti-privacy law
Indeed, far from being something that has been employed only by reigning officials, encryption has been used by civilians, businesspeople, and revolutionaries—including the Founding Fathers of the United States—for centuries. If the … Continue reading Crypto is For Everyone—and American History Proves It
Things really are getting out of hand. Privacy should mean privacy from all, including the police, especially when it comes to your medical and DNA records. Source: 23andme & Ancestry.com aggregated the … Continue reading 23andme & Ancestry.com turning over customer DNA to the police
“We have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in which the telephone records program made a concrete difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism investigation,” said … Continue reading Independent review board says NSA phone data program is illegal and should end
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