Privacy

• Security and Privacy "Certifications" often mean the opposite

  6 Oct 2006 • 1 min read • security Privacy post

  Certifications and Site Trustworthiness An excellent paper summarizing many of the problems with certifiers such as TRUSTe as well as showing that sites that get these certifications to prove their …

• Opposition To Nominated Us Chief Privacy Officer

  10 Aug 2006 • 1 min read • politics Privacy post

  I’m so tired of seeing privacy officers and council members who are lawyers first. They may understand the law, but they often don’t understand privacy. And lawyers tend to not consider …

• Bypass Compulsory Registration

  29 Jul 2006 • 1 min read • Privacy post

  Bugmenot.com - login with these free web passwords to bypass compulsory registration What a great idea.

• Cartoon The Revised Revised Story About Nsa Wiretapping

  9 Jul 2006 • 1 min read • politics Privacy Civil Liberties post

  WorkingForChange-This Modern World: The revised revised story

• Nsa'S Math Problem

  9 Jul 2006 • 1 min read • technology politics Privacy post

  https://www.liveammo.com Security News Blog legal or not, this sort of spying program probably isn’t worth infringing our civil liberties for — because it’s very unlikely that the type of …

• At Amp T Usurps Customer Records

  9 Jul 2006 • 1 min read • freedom security Privacy post

  Time to switch your phone company. AT&T rewrote its privacy policy to basically say that your data is theirs and they will do what they please. Some legal manoevering to allow them to continue to …

• The Tyranny of the Executive

  27 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • politics Privacy Civil Liberties post

  Atheist Ethicist My concern is that the Bush Administration may be spying only on suspected terrorists the way that it invades only countries supporting those who attacked the United States on 9/11. …

• Nsa Surveillance Only The Tip Of The Iceberg

  25 Jun 2006 • 1 min read • security politics Privacy Civil Liberties post

  A gaggle of links about the illegal NSA domestic spying program. More apropos in light of even more spying by the Bush Administration – this time on international wire transfers Think Progress: …

• Zphone: Encrypt your VOIP

  19 Mar 2006 • 1 min read • freedom security Privacy Civil Liberties post

  Boing Boing: Encrypted VOIP from PGP creator Zimmermann: Zfone Encrypted VOIP from PGP creator Zimmermann: Zfone Good reason to switch to VOIP instead of traditional phones to protect yourself from …

• Richard Stallman Quot Foils Quot Rfid Quot Security Quot-

  30 Nov 2005 • 1 min read • security Privacy post

  quot- GNU project founder foils UN security Glad my passport does not expire for many years to come. Perhaps by then passports won’t have RFID tags in them any longer. But if they do, I guess …