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Tech giant was sued over alleged violations of wiretap and privacy laws.
By: Josh Golin Update: As of April 21, 2014 inBloom announced it will be officially closing its doors. This week,...
Controversial student-data-management company inBloom announced it will "wind down" its operations after losing its last large partner, New York state.
On mesh networks.
When NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden first emailed Glenn Greenwald, he insisted on using email encryption software called PGP for all communications. But this month, we learned that Snowden used another technology to keep his communications out of the NSA's prying eyes. It's called Tails. And naturally, nobody knows exactly who created it.
The company acknowledges scanning the emails of Apps for Education users and faces allegations in a federal lawsuit that it built "surreptitious user profiles" for advertising purposes.
Like Microsoft, other webmail giants all reserve the right to read user emails, if 'deemed necessary'. By Alex Hern
In the course of writing my book, Dragnet Nation, I tried various strategies to protect my privacy. In this series of blog posts, …
Revelations of large scale electronic surveillance and data mining by governments and corporations have fueled increased adoption of HTTPS. We present a traffic analysis attack against over 6000 webpa
Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents and monitor activity — without detection. This TED Fellow gives an unsettling look at what's to come.
Chat replacement for library reference?
Bulk collection of webcam images found porn and "intimate" chats.
There’s a wicked irony when it comes to many privacy advocates. They are often narrowly focused on the their own individual privacy issues, but when it comes down to it they are typically sup…