The Never-ending Story: Protecting Your Privacy Online
The news is out and it’s not good. In fact, it’s downright troubling. It seems that every day, usually several times a day, there is more and more information available about the dangers of the Internet. It’s enough…
The Myth of Online Privacy
Cardozo Law School recently hosted a multi-disciplinary conference on privacy and the Internet, "Anonymity and Identity in the Information Age." Lawyers, computer scientists and public health advocates wrestled with the challenges of protecting…
Fight Hackers with Encryption
With all the focus on tech IPOs that reward gaming and chatting, it’s nice to see a company dedicated to privacy getting a little of bit of venture cash behind it. With just $1.5 million raised so far, CertiVox is still a tech minnow,…
Security Breaches in U.S. Companies “Almost a Statistical Certainty”
If 90% of U.S. companies are falling victim to computer hackers, according to a new Ponemon Institute study, is it that the companies are woefully unprepared or are the hackers are particularly smart? Looks like this one is on the companies.…
Why You Should Encrypt Your Data Now
A chilling story in the Wall Street Journal’s Digits Blog yesterday told us that LinkedIn, Netflix and Foursquare “stored various forms of users’ personal data in plain text on a mobile device, putting sensitive information…
iCloud – Darker Than Expected
Imagine this: You have an iPhone, iPad and Mac computer. You use all three devices mostly for personal home use, but you also receive work e-mail on them. Medical records, tax returns, and other confidential information goes on these devices.…
Dark iClouds
We now know that Apple will use next week's Worldwide Developer’s Conference to unveil iCloud, its new cloud storage product. Apple’s first attempt at cloud storage, MobileMe, was such a failure that Steve Jobs publicly tore into…
Google is STILL Not a Substitute for Thinking
Back in 2011 we wrote that Google is not a substitute for thinking, after Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said in an interview that Google aims to “compute the right answer” to questions typed in by users rather than just provide links.
Today,…
Is Apple Changing Its Story on User Tracking?
Two weeks ago, Apple and Google were called to answer growing concerns over privacy practices before Senate lawmakers. Today, executives from both companies responded to questions in a Senate hearing, but did little to alleviate our fears of…
RFID Tags – The Invisible Threat
While the U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether it’s lawful to covertly track a suspected felon through warrantless GPS monitoring (see April 15, 2011 petition here), the European Commission is tackling a more powerful, already implemented…
