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All Posts For - Privacy

GOP Puts Your Personal Online Data Up for Sale

March 29, 2017 Current News Privacy Comments are off for this post

"Do you want your insurance company to adjust your rates based on your web browsing activity? Do you want buyers of data to know you are communicating with political advocates? That's what this is about."

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In major privacy victory, top EU court rules against surveillance

December 22, 2016 Current News Privacy Comments are off for this post

The court acknowledged that “modern investigative techniques” were necessary to combat terrorism, but said that this cannot justify “the general and indiscriminate retention of all traffic and location data.”

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Feinstein drafts “the most ludicrous, dangerous, technically illiterate tech policy proposal of the 21st century.”

April 13, 2016 PPJC Picks ENCRYPTIOn Comments are off for this post

Feinstein's bill would essentially outlaw encryption on any kind of device and undermine privacy rights of all Americans.

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Husband of San Bernardino Survivor Calls for Stronger Gun Laws, Not Weaker Privacy

March 4, 2016 PPJC Picks Apple Comments are off for this post

“In the wake of this terrible attack, I believe strongly we need stronger gun laws. It was guns that killed innocent people, not technology.”

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Apple defies FBI order to hack iPhone: “Too dangerous”

February 17, 2016 PPJC Picks Privacy Comments are off for this post

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said, "This is the most important tech case in a decade," and called on Google to publicly support Apple's principled stand.

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Success in California: Four New Laws, One Veto—All Victories for Privacy and Transparency

October 14, 2015 PPJC Picks Privacy Comments are off for this post

California now has what Wired has called the “nation’s best digital privacy law,” which we hope will carry over to federal reforms.

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The ‘Athens Affair’ shows why we need encryption without backdoors

October 1, 2015 PPJC Picks NSA Surveillance Comments are off for this post

One of the biggest arguments against mandating backdoors in encryption is the fact that criminal hackers and foreign governments will be able to exploit the backdoor to use it themselves.

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Edward Snowden, supporters, unveil anti-spying ‘Snowden Treaty’

September 30, 2015 PPJC Picks Privacy Comments are off for this post

It’s not a matter of what the country wants, but what the people of the country want.

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Cybersecurity, Encryption and the Golden Age of Surveillance

July 9, 2015 PPJC Picks Cybersecurity Comments are off for this post

What FBI Director Comey wants is encryption that he can break with a court order. But if we make a system that can be broken, it can be broken by anybody, not just the FBI.

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Why Doesn’t the Intelligence Community Care Whether Its Security Programs Work?

April 8, 2015 PPJC Picks National Security Comments are off for this post

There is a strong argument for ending these programs on the basis of their high cost and lack of effectiveness alone. But they actually do damage to our society.

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