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The erosion of privacy in the digital world

Yves Le Roux is the Technology Strategist at CA Technologies and Chair of ISACA’s Data Privacy Task Force. In this interview he discusses the evolution of the digital …

UK agents detain Greenwald’s partner, destroy The Guardian’s hard drives

It has been an eventful weekend for The Guardian newspaper, its reporter Glenn Greenwald and his partner David Miranda, as the British police held the latter and questioned …

Chrome plugin aims to thwart user profiling efforts

Inspired by a piece of fictional software described in Cory Doctorow’s book Little Brother, developer Ben West created a browser plugin that should, in theory, make it …

LastPass bug leaks plain text passwords

Users of popular password manager LastPass have been advised to update to the latest version of the software, which incorporates a patch for a recently discovered bug that …

Lavabit owner risks arrest for not complying with surveillance order

The incessant revelations fueled by the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have made people reevaluate their expectations of privacy and their beliefs on …

NSA internal audit reveals thousands of privacy violations

An internal NSA audit document and several other seen by The Washington Post journalists prove that there have been over a 1,000 violations of FISA and presidential executive …

Practical Anonymity: Hiding in Plain Sight Online

With the recent surveillance scandals tied to the NSA, you can no longer be deemed paranoid or believe yourself to be overreacting if you want to find a way of keeping your …

Hacker hijacks baby monitor camera, terrorizes family

A Houston, Texas couple got a great shock this weekend when they heard a male voice coming from a room where their two year old was sleeping. They heard the man shouting to …

Mega plans to offer encrypted email service

With Lavabit’s closure and Silent Circle’s shutdown of its Silent Mail, the question is where to turn next for a secure email service. Prims-break.org has a few …

Obama defends surveillance programs, promises more oversight

Late last Friday, US president Barack Obama has held a press conference centered mostly on US surveillance programs, the details of which have been leaked, bit by bit, by …

The Pirate Bay releases censorship-thwarting browser

The operators of The Pirate Bay, one of the most (in)famous piracy sites on the Internet, have decided to celebrate the site’s 10th anniversary by releasing a web …

Facebook rolls out Graph Search for English speaking users

Graph Search, the semantic search engine whose Beta version Facebook introduced in March 2013, has been made available for everybody who uses the US English language. The …

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