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In our jobs, there is a direct link between the risks we take and what we can accomplish. Only taking such risks, can one control the narrative, the material, your choices, your story.
Wilfried N'Guessman, Jonathan Svärdh & Stefan Normann have a shared interest in the collection of data and its impacts on humanity. Penelope Hogan talked to them about their research and website, 'How Much is Your Data Really Worth'
Algorithms dictate everything you see online -- including this story. Despite their power, we know little about how they work.
Finextra: Barclays and PayPal are among a list of nine companies applying to act as identity providers for UK consumers accessing Government services online.
A book by Yasha Levine about how Silicon Valley turned the Internet into the greatest surveillance apparatus in the history of mankind.
Data is precious -- that much is obvious. For wearable tech and the quantified self in particular, digital brands and hardware vendors are increasingly conscious of the huge opportunity that this data provides them. It gives them greater insight into the lives, behaviors and tastes of consumers than ever before. But as we learned in Spiderman,
Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads.
Privacy is a right, not a privilege. Join us in protecting it.
In the internet of things, the Federal Trade Commission sees the possibility of flourishing new markets. But it also sees a prologue to Black Mirror: in a new report that probes the privacy...
Any change in accessing computer data should go through Congress, the search giant said.
Smart TV voice recognition software could transmit ‘personal or other sensitive information’ to a third party, Samsung’s policy warns
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A Justice Department operation started keeping logs of Americans' international phone calls in 1992 and became a template for far broader phone surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Can we possibly control digital data to serve our own desires and purposes? Or will we be modern-day techno-peasants controlled by the neo-feudal masters?
The right to privacy is an invaluable human right, essential to human autonomy and dignity, and deserves explicit attention to ensure that it is respected and protected around the world.
Sandy Pentland, MIT professor, talks to the Guardian about the ‘crowd-madness’ of social media and why tech giants such as Google must separate and protect users’ data
Paul Walsh/Flickr There’s one thing just about every company has in common right now. Without even necessarily meaning to, they have in some way become the proprietor of a new kind of wealth. I’m referring of course to their customers’ data. But the flipside to acquiring that data is your customers now hold you to…
Prime Minister Manuel Valls unveiled Thursday a bill that would make it easier for French intelligence services to deter potential terror threats, allowing agents to snoop through emails and intercept phone calls involving suspected terrorists.
An earlier version of this essay appeared last year, under the headline "The Manipulators," in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Since the launch of Netscape and Yahoo twenty years ago, the story of...
Between AI and Augmented Intelligence, we will redefine “human”
This essay is excerpted from Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier, published by W. W. Norton & Co. Inc. Surveillance is both a technological and a legal problem. Technological solutions are often things we can do ourselves. We can...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Italy's data privacy watchdog said Google Inc had agreed to it conducting inspections at its Californian headquarters, the first time a European Union regulator will make checks on
Snowden's latest leaks reveal an assault by British spies on the telecoms industry. It's alleged the British agency GCHQ stole SIM encryption keys from Gemalto, which provides the phone chips to many of the world's biggest networks. In doing so, it could access a massive number of communications and share them with the NSA. And it has shown just how little people can now trust in their telecoms services.
Alyssa Jane McDonald shares her views on the new technology the ‘Internet of Things,’ and discusses its applications and privacy problems.
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