“I can show your electronic life over time. Everything you did,” says ex-NSA employee and whistleblower Bill Binney.Where is YOUR personal space online? We look at the impact of mass surveillance in the UK, US and beyond.
In this video we hear from Thomas Drake, Bill Binney, Carey Shenkman, and Gavin MacFadyen.
Microsoft has reversed its position on the contentious Do Not Track (DNT) browser feature, saying Internet Explorer will no longer send DNT signals to websites by default.
“Put simply, we are updating our approach to DNT to eliminate any misunderstanding about whether our chosen implementation will comply with the W3C standard,” Microsoft chief privacy officer Brendon Lynch said in a Friday blog post.
President Obama just unveiled a number of proposals to crack down on hackers. It’s great that the government is working on this but we need to do a better job of protecting ourselves. So we sent a camera out onto Hollywood Boulevard to help people by asking them to tell us their password.
I have an archive of my own email going back 18 years, containing 450,000 messages. One day I decided to make it searchable. Not half-searchable but fully, dynamically, programmably searchable.
My big idea was: If I can quickly look through all of my old emails I will be able to observe how my thoughts have evolved. I’ll learn something fundamental about myself and how I’ve grown as a person —for example, the difference between being in my early 20s and being 40.
This seemed like an interesting thing to do, so I did it. But the experiment was a failure, and not very edifying.
We, the People of the Internet, need to remember the glory of its revelation so that we reclaim it now in the name of what it truly is.
Belgium’s data protection body has accused the social network of using plug-ins and cookies to follow users who have deleted their profile or never signed up for an account.That means the social media giant is breaching European law requiring users to choose whether to have tracking cookies placed on their device or not.
Irene Ng and David Reynolds talk about privacy and ownership in the digital age. Learn more about the HAT project at: http://hubofallthings.com/iwantahat
Internet pioneer Jaron Lanier argues that free technologies like Facebook come with a hidden and heavy cost — the livelihoods of their consumers.
In tech-driven medicine, alerts are so common that doctors and pharmacists learn to ignore them — at the patient’s risk.
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