PDEC Opposes Government “Backdoor” Access to Encrypted Data The Personal Data Ecosystem that PDEC promotes gives people the rights and capabilities to control, access, manage and secure value from data about them and their lives regardless of how such data is derived. PDEC members include businesses that provide citizens with means to control how […]
Harvard Law Review: Four principles for surveillance law
Neil Richards offers four principles for surveillance law: surveillance is not just for governments, secret surveillance and total surveillance are illegitimate, and surveillance is harmful. I add that surveillance is becoming something everyone and everything does, and that privacy is becoming about personal data as property.
There’s a new pain
Public expectations of privacy are expanding to include new powers and wider scope faster than governments, companies, and laws can keep up.
Anonymous announces #OpBigBrother for 1 June Day of Privacy
Anonymous today released a video and poster art for its 1 June 2013 “International Day of Privacy” #OpBigBrother action. The @OpBigBrother twitter account has been active for some time, urging opposition to drone surveillance, US congressional anti-privacy bills, and general government intrusion. Summer should be interesting . Related articles Anonymous – International Day of Privacy 02/23/2013 (panoffolin.wordpress.com) February 2013 Cyber Attacks […]