surveillance Tag Archive

Blur • Privacy

March 16, 2015

Europe Takes Online Privacy Seriously. You Can Too.

The Netherlands is known for its elaborate flood-control system, excellent soccer and a very tall populace. And it may one day have a reputation as a world leader in online privacy.

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Privacy

September 23, 2013

What story do your emails tell about you?

Your emails say a lot about you. That’s the focus of a recent MIT project called Immersion, which analyzes your email metadata and visualizes it to create a detailed picture of your relationships and emailing habits. Email metadata includes things like who you’re sending messages to, how often, what’s in the subject lines, and who […]

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Privacy

August 27, 2013

NSA scandal: agents snoop on their exes, make mistakes (and we called it)

The latest NSA scandal news is that government analysts used surveillance tools to spy on their exes, violated privacy rules, and made literally thousands of data-related mistakes each year. This shouldn’t surprise anyone. People aren’t perfect, and when you tempt them with enormous amounts of personal data, some of them will dip into it. In […]

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Privacy

August 21, 2013

NSA spying on 75% of internet traffic: 12 year old program exposed

Looks like the NSA lied. The Wall Street Journal’s Siobhan Gorman and Jennifer Valentino-Devries broke the story this morning that the NSA’s systems can access about 75% of all Internet traffic in the US. Not only that, but it can save the content of emails and Internet phone calls sent from one US citizen to […]

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Privacy

July 2, 2013

Can you trust the little people running big surveillance?

The news about the NSA’s widespread surveillance has unleashed a firestorm of well-deserved anger. Americans are trying to process what NSA spying means for them and how they can take action, but there’s also a palpable feeling of hopelessness, as if these big, faceless agencies have set in motion surveillance machinery that cannot be stopped […]

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