No phone taps on WhatsApp is whack, moan spymasters European ministers are debating a clampdown on encryption and a further increase in surveillance in response to mounting terrorist threats.…
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<p>Het publiceren van geheime documenten van autoriteiten brengt nevenschade aan ‘gewone’ burgers toe, blijkt uit onderzoek van AP.</p>
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by Cory Doctorow from on (#1R912)
Microsoft's deceptive hard-sell to gets users to "upgrade" to Windows 10 (the most control-freaky OS to ever come out of Redmond) is made all the more awful by just how much personal, sensitive, compromising data Microsoft exfiltrates from its users' PCs once they make the switch. (more…)
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Backpack ban for Oktoberfest beer bash Germany's interior minister Thomas de Maiziere wants facial recognition systems in the country's airports and train stations to identify terror suspects.…
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by cousinlucky from LinuxQuestions.org on (#1R1NQ)
I ran across this article today which might interest some LQ members! http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/privacy-lawsuit-over-gmail-will-move-forward/
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by Novatian from LinuxQuestions.org on (#1R1GA)
How do experienced Linux users maintain their privacy? Encryption, password protected documents, security, hardening...? What can one do about spyware, remote access, hackers, computer...
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by Lily Hay Newman from Feed: All Latest on (#1R0EN)
Researchers use online photos to create 3-D renders of faces and successfully dupe four facial recognition systems. The post Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) appeared first on WIRED.
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by Brian Wynne,Nuala O'Connor from Crunch Hype on (#1QY2G)
Drones have the potential to revolutionize our lives in many ways. However, some people have concerns. In the case of drone technology, one we hear often is the possible invasion of privacy. After months of discussions, a collaborative process resulted in a consensus set of voluntary best practices that balance people’s rights to operate drones with all of our rights to privacy. Read More
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by LXer from LinuxQuestions.org on (#1QXVW)
Published at LXer: Slams 'questionable tactics to cause users to download software many didn’t want'The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has called on Microsoft to offer a “single unified...
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A precedential decision [PDF] by Ontario's Court of Appeals concerning the privacy of SMS messages sounds more worrying than it actually is. Here's Vice Canada's opening paragraph on the ruling:
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by James Vincent from The Verge - All Posts on (#1QRVQ)
From Siri to Alexa, voice interfaces are becoming increasingly common, but for all their recent advances, they often struggle with one of the most basic characteristics of human speech: accents. The problem is so prevalent that computer scientists have identified the existence of a "machine voice," a standardized way of speaking that individuals with accents adopt in the hope of being understood. Researchers even warn about the existence of a "speech divide" that ostracizes individuals whose accents differ from those the machines have been trained on.As is often the case with technology built on large data sets, the problem begins with the input. If you only train your interface using a narrow selection of voices, then it won't know... Continue reading…
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by Joe Mullin from Ars Technica - All content on (#1QQF2)
New plaintiffs hope to push ahead with a class of people who never used Gmail.
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by Brian Heater from Crunch Hype on (#1QNWJ)
Your speech-recognizing friends at Nuance are back with a major update to their flagship app, Dragon. The popular productivity software is now in its 15th version, an update that promises some substantial improvements in accuracy courtesy of the company’s own deep learning tech, which forms the basis of its speech engine. According to Nuance, this latest upgrade brings… Read More
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by Scott Gant from Feed: All Latest on (#1QMYE)
The blog network's legal trial and subsequent bankruptcy will have long-lasting effects on journalists and ordinary citizens alike. The post Sex, Privacy, and Videotape: Lessons of Gawker's Downfall appeared first on WIRED.
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by Russell Brandom from The Verge - All Posts on (#1QHRE)
By the time the law caught up with him, Ronald Carnes had been on the run for 40 years. He’d been moving from state to state after escaping from a North Carolina prison in 1973, finally landing in Waterloo, Iowa, under a pair of assumed names.He probably could have spent the rest of his life that way if it weren’t for a facial recognition program in the Iowa Department of Motor Vehicles. Scanning through the driver’s license database, the program found Carnes’ face in the system under two different names, tipping police off to the fraud. Continue reading…
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from on (#1QJF7)
Apple CEO Tim Cook has said he developed his “moral sense†growing up in rural Alabama in the ‘60s and ‘70s — a period of incredible social upheaval.
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by Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#1QJEH)
Europe will publish draft law to ensure that online messaging services have privacy rules like those for texts and callsWhatsApp, Skype and other online messaging services face an EU crackdown aimed at safeguarding users’ privacy, in a move that highlights the gulf between Europe and the US in regulating the internet.
by Christine Bannan from Crunch Hype on (#1QFXB)
As the Internet of Things becomes more widespread, consumers must demand better security and privacy protections that don’t leave them vulnerable to corporate surveillance and data breaches. But before consumers can demand change, they must be informed — which requires companies to be more transparent. Read More
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by Cory Doctorow from on (#1QF9N)
UC London's offering a tax-free stipend for UK/EU students to work on designing and evaluating new approaches for continuous authentication, based on a solid theoretical underpinning so as to give a high degree of confidence that the resulting decisions match expectations and requirements" as well as "ways to preserve user privacy by processing behavioural measurements on the user’s computer such that sensitive information is not sent to the online service." (Image: LordHarris, CC-BY-SA) (Thanks, William!)
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from heise online News on (#1QD38)
Microsoft und Salesforce gehören zu den ersten Unternehmen, die Daten zwischen EU und USA unter dem Schutz des Privacy Shield übertragen wollen.
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by Guardian Staff from World news | The Guardian on (#1Q5A1)
Nanaia Mahuta has become the first female MP to wear a MÄori facial tattoo in New Zealand Parliament. The traditional chin tattoo also known as moko kauae is given to high-ranking MÄori women to reflect their standing and mana, or power, in the community. Mahuta was tattooed with 13 other Maori women who attended the moko kauae wÄnanga at Waahi PÄ in Huntly last weekend
by Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin from World news | The Guardian on (#1Q4CZ)
Move by Nanaia Mahuta hailed as a gesture of rangatiratanga, or self-determination, dissuaded during colonial eraA New Zealand Labour MP has spoken of her pride after becoming the first woman to wear a moko kauae, or traditional female MÄori chin tattoo, in parliament.“Moko is a statement of identity, like a passport,†Nanaia Mahuta, from the Waikato-Maniapoto tribe, told the Guardian. “I am at a time in my life where I am ready to make a clear statement that this is who I am, and this is my position in New Zealand.†Continue reading...
by Jerry Hildenbrand from Android Central RSS Feed on (#1Q3Y7)
Having nothing to hide doesn't mean you should ignore your privacy. Especially when keeping messages secure and private is so easy.An Ontario Court of Appeals has ruled that your SMS messages are not private and once "sent to the ether" are no longer under your control. Vice has a full write up about the decision that interested parties should read, but the short version is this: SMS messages are like email and not subject to the same protection that voice calls have. They aren't a private conversation, and you shouldn't keep thinking they are private. An Ontario Court of Appeals has ruled that your SMS messages are not private and once "sent to the ether" are no longer under your control.This has some far-reaching implications for some folks, while others won't care because they "have nothing to hide" or don't care what happens in a Canadian court. But we all should be concerned, and now is a perfect time for you and the people you talk with to switch to something else. P...
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by Joe Mullin from Ars Technica - All content on (#1PZE9)
650 phones are "a brick to us... Those are cases unmade, evidence unfound."
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by Tim Barker from Crunch Hype on (#1PYZZ)
Our world looks very different from when Steve Jobs held aloft the first iPhone in 2007. Marketers didn’t use technology beyond their website analytics, email marketing and display ads. It’s clear that the era of data-driven marketing is just getting started — and privacy is rapidly becoming the defining issue of the digital era. Read More
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by Calla Wahlquist from World news | The Guardian on (#1PY8J)
Plan to hold the vote on the anniversary of the 1967 referendum scuppered as deadline pushed backA referendum recognising Indigenous people in the Australian constitution will not be held next year, scuppering a plan to hold the vote on the anniversary of the 1967 referendum.The Referendum Council chairs, Mark Leibler and Pat Anderson, said the deadline had been pushed back to allow for better consultation with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, with the final report now due mid-2017. That means the referendum would be unlikely to be held before 2018. Continue reading...