Despite increasing privacy concerns the tech industry continues to collect and store massive amounts of metadata associated with every digital transaction. These extensive historical accounts of personal or business activities actually live forever and are shared and analyzed outside of user control, becoming a breeding ground for the next wave of cyber risks at all levels.

How well do companies in the sharing economy protect the privacy of their users? A report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

“This isn’t about giving law enforcement new tools; it’s about the FBI not wanting to do paperwork,” said privacy advocate Sen. Ron Wyden.

Privacy protections against government surveillance are often scoped to communications content and exclude communications metadata. In the United States, the National Security Agency operated a particularly controversial program, collecting bulk telephone metadata nationwide. We investigate the privacy properties of telephone metadata to assess the impact of policies that distinguish between content and metadata. We find that telephone metadata is densely interconnected, can trivially be reidentified, enables automated location and relationship inferences, and can be used to determine highly sensitive traits.

A former assistant inspector general at the Pentagon who was responsible for protecting whistleblowers became one himself when the process failed.

Move comes as Silicon Valley publicly battles the US intelligence agencies.

The study may be evidence that government surveillance has a chilling effect on free speech.

This article discusses the results of the first empirical study providing evidence of regulatory “chilling effects” of Wikipedia users associated with online go

The company is challenging the use of secrecy orders that prevent it from telling people when the government obtains a warrant to read their emails.

"Ridiculously optimistic" machine learning algorithm is "completely bullshit," says expert.

Fears that encrypted communication will prevent agencies from tracking terrorists are overstated, according to a study that included current and former intelligence officials.

Internet of Things opens government access to real-time, recorded communications.

The San Francisco Chronicle  has coverage of an issue that has been circulating on faculty email networks at UC Berkeley for a few days.  ...

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Now that the mass collection of telephone records by the NSA under Section 215 of the Patriot Act has ended due to the passage of USA Freedom, the question has arisen: what should the NSA do with the

The Wall Street Journal is reporting the NSA is in the middle of another "incidental collection" mess, this time involving...