This is a link and mirror of an extensive and brilliant EFF article about modern day digital privacy, its import and how to combat its violations.
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This is an excellent article by the New York Times reproduce here – it’s long and according to my hands-on experience with our voting machines and discussions with staff at the Boulder NIST, every word is true.
An excellent article by Bruce Schneier about the fact that there’s something fundamentally wrong when we’re discussing personal privacy in any way other than a basic human right.
The fourth amendment used to apply to hotel rooms, but there’s a rarely discussed detail – “unless they tell you otherwise”, even if it’s in tiny, tiny print on a website somewhere.
Governments are creating AI that can block “extremist” content – this blocks whatever those in power don’t want the rest of us to hear.
Used to be if law enforcement wanted to fingerprint you it took some effort – now they can do it with a smartphone. We’ve moved past national / citizen ID’s to biometrics on the street.
The ability to simulate another person’s voice perfectly creates a new security threat. Would your children believe it if a voice message not from you told them to go somewhere else after school?
This is a clever screen hack that affords excellent privacy in a public place.