Fast Company
How COVID-19 is changing the way we think about privacy
8 min · · The founder of data privacy startup Immuta explores how advanced privacy techniques could be employed to automate contact-tracing without sacrificing privacy. · Shared by 54, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, 瑞拿頭, John C. Havens (he/him)
Bitcoin News
Eric Hughes: A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
4 min · · The following essay called “A Cypherpunk's Manifesto” was written by Eric Hughes and published on March 9, 1993. · Shared by 7, including 瑞拿頭
Citizen Lab
We Chat, They Watch: How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus
· WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered… · Shared by 58, including hardmaru, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Mark Tabladillo PhD, 瑞拿頭, Neeraj K Agrawal, Jane Manchun Wong
blog.jumboprivacy.com
Private and Secure. By Design.
1 min · · Jumbo works uniquely from your iPhone, without any server-side processing. Learn why and how we have designed this. · Shared by 2, including 瑞拿頭
blog.jumboprivacy.com
Privacy Policy
2 min · · How we think about Privacy, and our full Privacy Policy. Written by our CEO, Pierre Valade. · Shared by 6, including 瑞拿頭, Bjorn Larsen
Schneier Blog
Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom
7 min · · Over the past few weeks, Zoom's use has exploded since it became the video conferencing platform of choice in today's COVID-19 world. (My own university, Harvard, uses it for all of its classes. Boris… · Shared by 60, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Matthias Lampe, Daniel Schwarz, 瑞拿頭, Alain, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Marc R Gagné MAPP, slumos
blog.xot.nl
Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform. (Or be ready to ditch your smartphone.)
4 min · · Apple and Google released a joint specification that allows both iPhones and Android devices to do contact tracing on a global scale. Even though “privacy, transparency, and consent are of utmost… · Shared by 10, including 瑞拿頭, Christopher Allen
Citizen Lab
Move Fast & Roll Your Own Crypto: A Quick Look at the Confidentiality of Zoom Meetings
16+ min · · This report examines the encryption that protects meetings in Zoom and finds that they have made their own encryption scheme and has significant weaknesses. · Shared by 174, including Marc R Gagné MAPP, Diogo Mónica, Mark Tabladillo PhD, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Neuropsychology, Evan Selinger, James Wooden, Faik Ersoy, Chris Messina, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, 瑞拿頭, kipit, Aral Balkan, Christian Surchi, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Matthew Green
safepaths.mit.edu
Private Kit: Safe Paths- Can we slow the spread without giving up individual privacy?
2 min · · Android: Download Private Kit: Safe Paths Available for all Android 8.0 smartphones and above. iOS: Download Private Kit: Safe Paths Upgraded UX Coming Soon (Preview the Look Below) - Download the App… · Shared by 19, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Massimiliano Aroffo, Christopher Allen, 瑞拿頭
The New Yorker
Dressing for the Surveillance Age
5 min · · As cities become ever more packed with cameras that always see, public anonymity could disappear. Can stealth streetwear evade electronic eyes? · Shared by 230, including William Gibson, 瑞拿頭, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Thomas Pleil, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, hardmaru, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Luca Like
Fast Company
Forget the new iPhones: Apple’s best product is now privacy
6 min · · Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny industrial design or a nice camera.
· Shared by 444, including Lucas Foster, Diego Paladino, Stephan Leduc, Gerd Leonhard, Enrique Dans, fernand0, Azeem Azhar, Julian de Keijzer, Helmi, Reto Laemmler, Liv 😷, Ste Davies, Mark Kaigwa, Nicolas Berg, Janosch Tröhler, Johannes Lenz, Massimiliano Aroffo, Andreas Heer, Ralph Hutter, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to
github.com
guardianproject/haven
· haven - Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal spaces and possessions without compromising their own privacy, through an Android app and on-device sensors · Shared by 8, including 瑞拿頭
Schneier Blog
Schneier on Security
3 min · · For decades, I have been talking about the importance of individual privacy. For almost as long, I have been using the metaphor of digital feudalism to describe how large companies have become central… · Shared by 34, including Jamie Burke ⛺️, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Bill Johnston, 瑞拿頭, Joe Lencioni
latacora.micro.blog
Stop Using Encrypted Email
6 min · · Email is unsafe and cannot be made safe. The tools we have today to encrypt email are badly flawed. Even if those flaws were fixed, email would remain unsafe. Its problems cannot plausibly be… · Shared by 52, including Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, 瑞拿頭, William (Bill) Kennedy, Chris {he, they} , Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert, Marc R Gagné MAPP, DHH, Ser Jeff Garzik, Matthew Green
The New York Times
Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop
5 min · · Microphones and cameras lurk everywhere. You may want to slip on some privacy armor. · Shared by 192, including Neeraj K Agrawal, Scott Shapiro, The Last Shitposter, John Battelle, Futurity News, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Chris MacDonald, Shoshana Zuboff, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Randy Deutsch, Tiffany Shlain, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Alex Barrera, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, John Hagel, Glen Gilmore #MWC23, John C. Havens (he/him), Marc R Gagné MAPP, Kashmir Hill
PCMag
The Quantified Employee: How Companies Use Tech to Track Workers
12+ min · · Measuring employee performance with surveillance isn't new, but emerging technologies are helping companies monitor workers in arguably invasive ways. Are you being watched? · Shared by 82, including Dr. David Ballard, Katja Evertz, Ron McIntyre, Tom Connor, 瑞拿頭, Real Marsha Wright®, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer