While the U.S. has Snowden, The Brits have Privacy International. As part of a lawsuit, Privacy International obtained formerly secret files regarding the extent of British surveillance. The data the Brits are hoovering up includes private medical records, correspondence with your doctor or lawyer, financial data and other information. And the government admits that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court or FISA Court has affirmed that the Feds do not need a warrant to search your email. Of course, if that email is encrypted – not like GMail, but with real encryption – then while they may have the FISA court’s permission to look at it, they will have to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the “what could go wrong with this” department, New York lawmakers are considering a piece of legislation that would require drivers who are involved in an accident to submit their phone to roadside testing to determine if they were using their device prior to crashing the vehicle. License, registration, proof of insurance and phone, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I guess it should not come as a big surprise as there are more hacks and breaches, but the degree of lost confidence by federal government employees in the last two years is still staggering. Dell conducted a survey of federal government employees in 2014 and again this year and the numbers are amazing. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signalling System 7 or SS7 has long known to be vulnerable to hackers. SS7 is the control system protocol that telephone companies use to route and transfer calls between companies and, in the cellular world, between towers. Since SS7 was designed in the early 1980s, no one was terribly concerned about security. Hackers – or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the turnabout is fair play department, Microsoft is now suing the Department of Justice. Turns out that over the last 18 months, Microsoft has received about 5 orders a day for customer information which do not allow Microsoft to tell the customer that the government filched their data. For the majority of them, that order […]
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