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]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: This is bill is apparently worse than I thought. The Register says that a petition calling for the bill to be withdrawn has gathered 43,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. Other comments include that the bill is so poorly written that it would outlaw the NSA’s encryption, unless they add a backdoor to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the downsides of collecting data is that you may have to disclose it. In Uber’s case, it collects a lot of data, so regulators and law enforcement can ask for that data. In this case, even though the release of all this data is not a breach, it still could be a cause […]
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