Blog Posts Tagged with "Privacy"
Losing Trust: Canadian Data Breach Spotlights Human Error
July 27, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
It’s not just about protecting ourselves from identity theft or fraud like when our account number or government-issued ID numbers are exposed. It’s what I like to call privacy for the sake of privacy. Just knowing that someone could be looking at our personal histories doesn’t sit well with the public...
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New Cybersecurity Bill Patches Serious Vulnerabilities
July 24, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
We remain unpersuaded that any of the proposed cybersecurity measures are necessary and we still have concerns about certain sections of the bill, especially the sections on monitoring and countermeasures. But this was a big step in the direction of protecting online rights...
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Take Social Media Privacy into Your Own Hands
July 23, 2012 Added by:Bill Mathews
I've gotten in a lot of arguments lately about the end-user side of technology - privacy. Many in the security industry already know most of the things people are discovering, and have screamed warnings from the mountaintops to the folks below. Alas, this is the woe of being a security engineer...
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Between You and Me, This is Not Private...
July 22, 2012 Added by:Fergal Glynn
If most websites can’t get password storage right, you can bet they can’t get storage of the content you are trusting them with right either. The private documents that you stored with your favorite cloud service are probably not encrypted in a way that only your account can decrypt, if they’re encrypted at all...
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Ad Biz Disregards User Choices to Safeguard "Cybersecurity"
July 19, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Senator Rockefeller was skeptical about the industry’s claims that they needed to engage in pervasive tracking for cybersecurity purposes. He stated: “I just want to declare the whole cybersecurity matter a total red herring.” We agree that strong cybersecurity does not necessitate surveillance of our browsing habits...
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Cybersecurity, Scare Tactics, and Sacrificing Privacy
July 13, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Efforts to break the partisan stalemate over the Cybersecurity Act, a bill that would allow Internet companies to monitor the communications of users and pass that data to the government without any judicial oversight, have backers of the bill attempting to drum up fears about catastrophic cyberattacks...
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No Data Retention Mandate in Smith’s New Legislation
July 12, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
A controversial, anti-privacy data retention mandate is notably absent from the child protection bill recently introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith. Smith had previously introduced H.R. 1981, which would have mandated that ISPs collect and maintain data on Internet users not suspected of any crime...
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FCC Seeks Public Comment on Mobile Data Collection Policies
July 10, 2012 Added by:David Navetta
The FCC revived an inquiry first launched in 2007 to investigate telecom carriers’ practices regarding the privacy and security of information stored on mobile communications devices, prompted by the recent controversy in which software installed on mobile phones was shown to be collecting data from customers...
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What Does it Take to be Digitally Secure?
July 09, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
It’s no longer possible to deny that your life in the physical world and your digital life are one and the same. While you are present here on the ground, you also exist online, whether you know it or like it or not. Coming to terms with this reality will help you make better decisions in many aspects of your life...
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Law Enforcement Sought 1.3 Million Cell Phone Records in 2011
July 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“Law enforcement agencies are looking for a needle, but what are they doing with the haystack? We need to know how law enforcement differentiates between records of innocent people, and those that are subjects of investigation, as well as how it handles, administers, and disposes of this information..."
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Should Businesses Be Able to Google Customers?
July 08, 2012 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
It should come as no surprise that businesses are taking advantage of the public’s fascination of placing their day-to-day activities on social networking sites. This may seem inappropriate and offensive, and it might be – but for the moment, it’s not illegal. We have only ourselves to blame...
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Is Privacy Worth the Loss of Opportunity?
July 05, 2012 Added by:Scott Thomas
Privacy is a huge issue to most of us in the infosec community. Where this hits home though is when you're contemplating making a career move. You want the industry to know that you're considering your choices, but you don't want "the wrong people" to know (read: your current employer)...
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I Know What You Tweeted Last Summer...
July 04, 2012 Added by:Theresa Payton
We have mentioned before that Twitter will send every tweet to the National Archives and the Library of Congress, so watch what you tweet. Now new tools unleash a trove of data in moments. For the 140 million and growing user base that tweets over 400 million tweets per day, this might be a little more than alarming...
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EFF Staff to Present at Hackers on Planet Earth
July 01, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Technologies are transforming our society, and when our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE), one of the most creative and diverse hacker events in the world...
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The Right to Internet Anonymity and Legal Implications
June 28, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Anonymizing services are based on the concept of distribution of routing information during a transmission. It is not known prior the path between a source and destination, and every node of the network manages minimal information to route the packets to the next hop without preserving history of the path...
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Underground Financial Networks
June 26, 2012 Added by:gaToMaLo r. amores
Greendot and other Reloadable debit cards are not a safe means of conducting anonymous financial transfer. The financial networks created by these cards are very prone to network analysis. There is an unacceptable amount of cross network contamination for vendors...
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