Law Enforcement Access to Chat Data and Metadata
December 10 2021A January 2021 FBI document outlines what types of data and metadata can be lawfully obtained by the FBI from messaging apps. Rolling Stone broke the story...
Read moreNew German Government is Pro-Encryption and Anti-Backdoors
December 8 2021I hope this is true:
According to Jens Zimmermann, the German coalition negotiations had made it “quite clear” that the incoming government of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens...
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Someone Is Running Lots of Tor Relays
December 7 2021Since 2017, someone is running about a thousand — 10% of the total — Tor servers in an attempt to deanonymize the network:
Grouping these servers under the KAX17...
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S3 Ep61: Call scammers, cloud insecurity, and facial recognition creepiness [Podcast]
December 2 2021Latest episode - listen now!
Read moreS3 Ep61: Call scammers, cloud insecurity, and facial recognition creepiness [Podcast]
December 2 2021Latest episode - listen now!
Read moreClearview AI face-matching service set to be fined over $20m
November 30 2021Scraping data for a facial recognition service? "That's unlawful", concluded both the British and the Australians.
Read moreUS government securities watchdog spoofed by investment scammers – don’t fall for it!
November 24 2021Those numbers that show up on your phone to tell you who's calling? Treat them as SUGGESTIONS, never as PROOF.
Read moreApple’s Privacy Protection feature – watch out if you have a Watch!
November 17 2021Apple's "Protect Mail Activity" is a handy privacy enhancement for your messaging habits. As long as you know its limitations...
Read moreApple's "Protect Mail Activity" is a handy privacy enhancement for your messaging habits. As long as you know its limitations...
Read moreIs Microsoft Stealing People’s Bookmarks?
November 17 2021I received email from two people who told me that Microsoft Edge enabled synching without warning or consent, which means that Microsoft sucked up all of their bookmarks. Of...
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