Heartbleed Bug

The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs).

Privacy – European Photography 90

Privacy features 17 international artists with their views on private matters : Florian Ruiz, Jana Romanova, Dante Busquets, Chad States, Dennis Rito, Rania Matar, Kurt Caviezel, Marco Lachi, Kasia Bielska, Margo Ovcharenko, Lorena Morin, Marina Kruglyakova, Nils Klinger, Gerald Förster, Oscar Monzón, WassinkLundgren, and Hester Scheurwater.

Are teenagers really careless about online privacy?

As Facebook lifts its sharing restrictions on 13-to-17-year-olds, Jon Henley finds that young people know exactly what to do with their privacy settings – especially where Mum is concerned.

More than 50% of young people use in-jokes and obscure references to encode what they post.

Mullah Piaz – Cartoon

In March 2010, Hojjatollah Behrouz, managing director of the Tehran Traffic Control Company, was quoted as saying that 550 cameras are now watching the streets and, in the course of a five-year plan, their number should hit 1,400 in order to cover the whole city. The so called “Smart Systems” include special cameras monitoring traffic restricted zones, visual control cameras, and multipurpose billboards.

Privacy Icons: Alpha Release

Earlier this year, Mozilla convened a privacy workshop that brought together some of the world’s leading thinkers in online privacy. People from the FTC to the EFF were there to answer the question: What attributes of privacy policies and terms of service should people care about? This lead to a proposal presented for the W3C, among other places, which further refined the notion.

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