Privacy and Civil Liberties: Will the EU Prevent NSA-Like Suspicionless Surveillance?
By Vicki S. Nikolaidis The telephone records were not enough. Some members of United States President Barack Obama’s surveillance task force were calling for more types of data around the end of 2013. They wanted to include email metadata. Simultaneously, Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography professor Bart Preneel was recommending to a European Parliament (EP) […]
Want to Lose All Privacy and Personal Security? There’s Apps For That
By Ron Steinman For some time I have been thinking about apps and what they do for us and to us. Apps may be great, but they are also a huge problem. To back me up, comes a story called “Selling You on Facebook” in The Wall Street Journal, yes, the Wall Street Journal, the […]
SOPA: Piracy or Freedom
In case you did not know it, SOPA in everyday English is Stop Online Piracy Act. Its main supporters are in Hollywood, TV, big music, and other major entertainment. Its opponents are the largest Web companies and the legions of naïve people who believe the passage of such an act would impede their right to […]
Supreme Court Ruling On GPS Use By Police: George Orwell Rising
By Ron Steinman In November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments that some legal experts are calling the most important Fourth Amendment case in years. It involves the use by police who placed an unauthorized GPS device on a suspect’s car to track said suspect’s movements. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches […]
