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Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see -- and write about -- the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States' extensive surveillance of private citizens. In this searing talk, Greenwald makes the case for why you need to care about privacy, even if you’re “not doing anything you need to hide." 
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The message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1 pm. Bring a book and wait for ES to find you.”
Farid Mheir's insight:
A very good story that reveals some new information about what Snowden knows and has done. Very informative and well written.
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For the past four years, a secret cyber-attack campaign, possibly state-sponsored, has been directed at several Latin American intelligence services, military, embassies and other government institutions. The Moscow-based cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab, which claims to have unearthed the campaign, has given it a name: El Machete. According to Kaspersky, the attacks started in 2010. Its...
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Interesting that cyber attacks are not a monopoly of USA, China and Russia, although they share similar features with the USA PRISM program and Israeli Flame and Stuxnet virus. The Best Explanation Yet Of How The NSA's PRISM Surveillance Program Works http://sco.lt/8rWyDx A world where everything is hackable via @Strata @acroll http://sco.lt/8pX85p
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Steve Kroft investigates the multibillion-dollar industry that collects, analyzes and sells the personal information of millions of Americans with virtually no oversight
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A very well researched overview of the data privacy issues that we face online. The report exposes in very simple terms how your personal information is being collected as you browse the Internet. More on this topic here http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses/?tag=Privacy And also a specific post I wrote a while back on the tool featured during the interview: What is behavioural tracking? @gary_kovacs explains in 9min video: Tracking our online trackers via @TED #mustsee http://sco.lt/6nVELB
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As promised, the release of Glenn Greenwald's new book, No Place to Hide, has brought plenty more Snowden leaks, and one document is particularly
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Spying, just like in the movies! Also see United States of Secrets- #mustWatch via @FRONTLINE http://sco.lt/6kuPfV
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How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?
Farid Mheir's insight:
I watched episode #1, can't wait to see episode #2. Must watch, very good summary of all things in digital spying since 9/11.
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New models built with security and privacy in mind reflect the Zeitgeist of the Snowden era.
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Read if you want to know more about the new blackphone and the encryption behind it.
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Have you ever wanted to disappear online? Simply vanish from the electronic realm? Read on to discover how to remove your private info from the Internet.
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Very useful, if not complete, list of things to do to erase your life on the Internet. The post also has useful links to services that can partially automate the process.
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In 2010 I asked Professor Eben Moglen to speak to the Internet Society of New York about software freedom, privacy and security in the context of cloud computing and social media. In his Freedom in the Cloud talk, he proposed the FreedomBox as a solution: a small inexpensive computer which would provide secure encrypted communications in a decentralized way to defeat data mining and surveillance by governments and large corporations. Via Peter Azzopardi
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Security and privacy concerns are top of mind for corporations and individuals looking to move their data to the cloud. This very technical story provides some insights into what may be offered in the future: fully encrypted data, as soon as it leaves the browser, with minimal overhead. Let's hope we can see this in commercial offerings soon.
Peter Azzopardi's curator insight,
April 18, 2014 6:54 PM
Homomorphic encryption allows data to be processed in an encrypted form so that only the end user can access it in a readable form. So far it has been too demanding for normal computers to handle.
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Thanks to a leak of Syrian web censorship data, internet researchers have been able to analyse, for the first time, exactly what steps an authoritarian regime takes to restrict traffic. Via Bob Boynton
Farid Mheir's insight:
I have not looked at the raw data or the report itself but I find interesting that - 98% of traffic goes through untouched - the analysis does not raise the question of how much traffic was "inspected" or looked at
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They plan to rebuild and change the way money moves from buyer to seller.
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Bitcoins remain a risky proposition, we all know that. What this event provides is how much attention bitcoin have received - and speculation - in a world where there are no rules. No government regulation, just "code of conduct" from its users.
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Tesla and GM have both issued fire-related recalls, but Tesla’s fix doesn’t require owners to bring their cars in.
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Benefits of having an Internet connected device - here a car - is that it can be remotely updated to fix issues or tune performance. Convenience and fast improvements. Remember that this means it can also be remotely monitored, both for good and bad reasons, which may also raise security and privacy concerns.
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Look at the diagram and read the post then follow the last link.
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If you are keen to see which topics dominated the zeitgeist, which topics managed to escape the headlines despite being eminently profound and which topics we believe will be biting us soon, then join us. Give us an hour, we will give you 2013.
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The webcast is very interesting although the resulting slide deck is cryptic. It provides very useful link list at the end for anyone looking to followup on the infoSec 2013 year in review. Pretty scary if you ask me, the final word goes to Dan Geer saying "We are expanding the society-wide attack surface faster than we are expanding our (protection)"
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Washington Post report (based on Snowden leaks) reveals a possible 27 TB database.
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If you carry a cell phone, then you are being tracked. Along the same lines: NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say via @washingtonpost http://sco.lt/5z0Es5 Astonishing Graphic Shows What You Can Learn From 6 Months Of Someone's Phone Metadata http://sco.lt/7shPsH
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The line between public and private has blurred in the past decade, both online and in real life, and Alessandro Acquisti is here to explain what this means and why it matters. Via AnalyticsInnovations
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Another great talk about ways in which personal sensitive information can be extracted from a simple picture of your face, using public data on Facebook and elsewhere. Also read: Why privacy matters- why it is Paramount even if you’re “not doing anything you need to hide" via @TED http://sco.lt/8uDaLJ
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Here is a quick guide for marketing departments, techies or individuals to assist in burying negative search results on Google. Do keep in mind that the effectiveness of these actions will be determined by 1. the effort you are able to put into it and 2. The SEO and value of the site hosting the negative content.
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Part of the new reality of the digital life, is how to manage the good and the bad. Here a very practical (if not easy) approach.
Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight,
September 23, 2013 10:14 AM
Simple approach to manage online reputation.
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As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business.
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I've been following collusion addon since its inception and I use it on a regular basis to remember all the digital breadcrums I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet. This is an awakening video but unfortunately the collusion software fail to offer us paths to minimize what behavioural tracking - aside from blocking all ads.
Farid Mheir's curator insight,
January 28, 2017 4:48 PM
If you don't know what behavioral tracking is about, this may be an "awakening" video: be prepared.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I've been following the Firefox "collusion" add-on since its inception (it is now called "lightbeam" and you can find it here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/). I use it on a regular basis to remember the digital breadcrumbs I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet. Unfortunately, the lightbeam software add-on can only help by blocking the digital ads that track us and cannot minimize the behavioral tracking itself.
On this Data Privacy Day 2017, we must use this opportunity to raise our knowledge of the digital tracking that occurs in both the virtual world and the physical world. It is now a reality that we are being tracked as much in the physical world because we carry in our pockets smartphones that track our every moves - literally. Be aware, and be careful.
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As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business.
Farid Mheir's insight:
If you don't know what behavioral tracking is about, this may be an "awakening" video: be prepared.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I've been following the Firefox "collusion" add-on since its inception (it is now called "lightbeam" and you can find it here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/). I use it on a regular basis to remember the digital breadcrumbs I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet. Unfortunately, the lightbeam software add-on can only help by blocking the digital ads that track us and cannot minimize the behavioral tracking itself.
On this Data Privacy Day 2017, we must use this opportunity to raise our knowledge of the digital tracking that occurs in both the virtual world and the physical world. It is now a reality that we are being tracked as much in the physical world because we carry in our pockets smartphones that track our every moves - literally. Be aware, and be careful.
Farid Mheir's curator insight,
September 14, 2013 12:02 PM
I've been following collusion addon since its inception and I use it on a regular basis to remember all the digital breadcrums I leave behind as I roam around on the Internet. This is an awakening video but unfortunately the collusion software fail to offer us paths to minimize what behavioural tracking - aside from blocking all ads.
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A new site called JustDelete.me makes vanishing from the web much, much easier. Created by U.K.-based developer Robb Lewis, JustDelete.me is a directory of urls that highlights links to pages you may want to remove yourself from, so you don't have to jump through hoops to do so. This includes sites like Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox.
Farid Mheir's insight:
This is just a list of links but still worth the effort to have a single location with all the links. Would be useful to automate the work though.
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Smartphone-monitoring bins in London track places of work, past behavior, and more.
Farid Mheir's insight:
This article makes me think of the collusion website that shows all your online activities based on the ads you view in web pages. I could see a future where google analytics not only shows your online website activities but your physical stores as well.
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"You will set off on a trip through Malte Spitz's life."
Farid Mheir's insight:
Truly insightful for anyone that thinks privacy remains in this digital age of ours. Must follow the link to the ZEIT online recreation of the digital journey. It will open your eyes as to how much data breadcrums we leave behind with just carrying our cell phones with us. When crossed with additional information including twitter feeds, facebook postings, google searches and other digital activities, our life is fully documented. Those that fear lifelogging should fear no more as they are already doing it, albeit unvoluntarilly. That being said, this may have tons of useful information for businesses but I fail to see any CIO or IT team yet tapping into this trove of data that could be leverage to improve distribution routes or manage employees better.
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A lot of people are freaked out by the idea that the NSA has for years been collecting data from ordinary Americans' email accounts. Nobody likes the idea of the feds combing through their email. But experts know that it's not the content of individual emails that is the most useful thing to authorities. Rather, it's the metadata. Metadata is, literally, "information about the information." Email metadata provides a much broader view of patterns between users, and who is communicating with who, than the text inside any individual email would. If you want to identify terrorist networks, the metadata is what you really want, not access to the inside of a few suspects' accounts. (Although that might come later, of course.) MIT has been working on a project called "Immersion" to let you do exactly that with your own email, so that you can see who your closest "collaborators" actually are (and not the ones you'd like to think they are). You sign up at this web site, and let the software arrange your email history into a visual network of the people you communicate with.
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Follw the link to MIT immersion and explore your own network. Very interesting to see it mapped out. Compare it to your LinkedIn network visual map for example, and now you have
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The Associated Press has published a detailed report about how the NSA's PRISM program — established to acquire data from tech giants including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — is a small part of a massive domestic dragnet run by...
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Go read the report as well as it is well done
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In generation two, when you've got better battery life and apps that do better face recognition—maybe we're crying wolf a little early to a certain extent—but [what happens when] you get to competing products?” Adam said. “The idea that you'll have recognition of objects and infrared tags so it will always know what you're looking at—that kind of thing, it will be gathering information. It's more the face recognition stuff that changes society. You're never going to see a stranger as a stranger again. "It destroys having multiple identities, and I find that quite a scary concept."
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Google glass + facial recognition will have a profound impact on the way people will interact with strangers in a business setting. Facial recognition will certainly be built within the devices early in their life, which will give access to information on a previously never seen scale. In a recent article in The Economist, a third of a random set of 93 Carnegie Mellon students were recognized using facial recognition software and facebook profile photos. But the thing is, I never remember names or exactly where I've met people previously in a business context. Being able to have their name and other information popup discretly in my google glasses as I pass them by in the hallways has a definite appeal. And I suppose I am not very different than other colleagues of mine. This thing will sell.
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Amazing talk on the reasons why privacy is so important in the digital age. Listen until the end as I find the Q&A during the last 3 minutes may help you to see Snowden as a whistle blower rather than a traitor.
I was curious and dug the 2005 CNET article about the personal information that CNET has gathered on Eric Schmidt that Greenwald references in his talk.
http://cnet.co/1vTS5Uh