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Freedom from Privacy

FBI Agents on August 16, 2014, investigate the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown at the location where he was killed on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Missouri. Vandals attacked stores in Ferguson early August 9, hours after police said the unarmed black teenager was a robbery suspect. The allegation reignited anger in the town, a St. Louis suburb in the state of Missouri, that has endured on-and-off rioting since Brown was killed on August 9. AFP PHOTO/Joshua LOTT (Photo credit should read Joshua LOTT/AFP/Getty Images)
Aug 4

Tech Giants Fave Senate Legislation to Give Cops Access to US Data Stored Overseas

New legislation would require law enforcement to seek more warrants while also extending their reach.
By Brady Dale
So many devices.
Aug 1

[UPDATED] Amazon Takes Privacy Stand by Slapping Down Blu for Pre-Loading Spyware

Amazon has taught an electronics maker a powerful lesson about respecting consumers' privacy. The only problem: it's tough to say what the lesson is exactly.
By Brady Dale
1964: Jars of vaseline advertised as 'designed to prevent nappy rash'. (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)
Jul 28

Buy Your Next Blowjob Machine With Bitcoin (or Litecoin, STEEM and More)

“It’s a messy affair behind the scenes to accept cryptocurrencies, but I feel it's worth it to help protect the privacy of my most private customers."
By Brady Dale
The fact that people generally leave their email in the cloud has become a privacy problem.
Jul 14

House Email Privacy Advocates Try to Get the Senate’s Attention Again

By Brady Dale
Adult film actresses Aspen Rae (L) and Riley Reid co-host the 2017 Adult Video News Awards at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on January 21, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Jul 13

Practice Safe Search With This Site for Discovering Adult Content

By Brady Dale
Picture taken with long time exposure shows light traces of cars driving on the A2 highway at the connection 'Lehrte' near Hanover, central Germany, on January 17, 2017. / AFP / dpa / Julian Stratenschulte / Germany OUT (Photo credit should read JULIAN STRATENSCHULTE/AFP/Getty Images)
Jun 29

8 Good Privacy Questions for Makers of Connected Cars

By Brady Dale
ASCOT, ENGLAND - JUNE 21: A racegoer looks through binoculars during a race at Royal Ascot 2017 at Ascot Racecourse on June 21, 2017 in Ascot, England. The five-day Royal Ascot meeting is one of the highlights of the horse racing calendar and has been held at the famous Berkshire course since 1711. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
Jun 26

Google Hasn’t Stopped Scanning Gmail

By Brady Dale
Writer.
Jun 1

Three Places to Write Anonymously Online

By Brady Dale
Stronger together.
May 31

Encrypted Email Service Latest to Join Anti-Patent Trolling Group

By Brady Dale
HANOVER, GERMANY - MARCH 20: The robot "Pepper" speaks with visitors at the IBM stand at the CeBIT 2017 Technology Trade Fair on March 20, 2017 in Hanover, Germany. "Pepper" has a face detection and is either used to greet Hotel guests during arrival or can be personalized by his owner to help in the household. The 2017 CeBIT will run from March 20-24. (Photo by Alexander Koerner/Getty Images)
Apr 21

The Government Will Regulate the IoT After It Kills People

By Brady Dale
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 26: Jayla, aged 4, plays with a 'My Friend Cayla' doll in the Hamleys toy shop on June 26, 2014 in London, England. The doll, which uses Bluetooth technology to connect to Android and iOS devices, retails for 75 GBP and is included in Hamleys' predictions for the top selling toys for Christmas 2014. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
Mar 24

Business Is Spiking for Online Privacy Services Because Congress Sucks

By Brady Dale
We know you're looking, but how much do you see?
Mar 23

Google Beat Apple on an Accountability Scorecard—And No One Saw It Coming

By Brady Dale
A woman photographs a window display of the Apple watch during the unveiling of the new and highly anticipated product at Saint-Honore street in Paris on September 30, 2014. AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE (Photo credit should read LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images)
Mar 9

9 Reasons Consumer Reports’ Privacy Standard Will Make Tech Giants Spaz

By Brady Dale
A woman wears a mask as she takes part in a march on March 5, 2017 at Bakirkoy district in Istanbul, ahead of the World women day of March 8, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC (Photo credit should read BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images)
Mar 7

What Non-Superstar Activists Need From Security Tools

By Brady Dale
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 03: Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS) plays with his daughter during a roll call vote for the election of the Speaker of the House on the floor of the House of Representatives January 3, 2017 in Washington, DC. Seven new members of the U.S. Senate and 52 new members of the House Representatives took their oath of office as the 115th U.S. Congress was seated. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Feb 8

Protect Your Email From the Cops So Congress Won’t Have To

By Brady Dale
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 25: A demonstrator waves a sign in protest of Google during the Google I/O Developers Conference at Moscone Center on June 25, 2014 in San Francisco, California. The seventh annual Google I/O Developers conference is expected to draw thousands through June 26. (Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty Images)
Jan 5

Tracking Tricker AdNauseam Removed From the Chrome Store

By Brady Dale
Edward Snowden speaks at SXSW in 2014.
Nov 10

Neither Hope for an Obama, Nor Fear a Trump, Snowden Said Today

By Brady Dale
LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 6: People aim cell phones at a speaker in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre as they march on Hollywood Boulevard to protest of the decision in New York not to indict a police officer involved in the choke-hold death of Eric Garner on December 6, 2014 in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. The march passed the tourist attraction of Hollywood and Highland where police had previously shot and killed a man that according to police had a knife. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
Nov 9

Google’s Android Phones Threaten Democracy, ACLU Technologist Warns

By Brady Dale
Aral Balkan speaks at DOKU:TECH.
Oct 24

A Clickbait Site’s Trackers Cost the USA $4M in Data Monthly, Entrepreneur Says

By Brady Dale
LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 07: A man checks his mobile phone on the day that Twitter announced its initial public offering and debut on the New York Stock Exchange on November 7, 2013 in London, England. Twitter went public on the NYSE opening at USD 26 per share, valuing the company's worth at an estimated USD 18 billion. (Photo by Bethany Clarke/Getty Images)
Oct 21

Fears of the Web’s Dark Side—Strangely—Are Not Growing

By Brady Dale
Nested within several companies, Alphabet (known to normal people as Google), runs LinkNYC, the most helpful surveillance equipment around.
Oct 17

Intersection’s CEO, a Former AmEx Guy, Announces Departure for Visa

By Brady Dale
MANCHESTER, NH - DECEMBER 19: U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL 23rd District), who is also the Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) speaks to reporters before the democratic debate on December 19, 2015 in Manchester, New Hampshire. The DNC has been criticized for the timing of democratic debates during the 2016 presidential race.
Oct 14

The Intercept Releases GPG Sync, an Encryption Tool for Organizations

By Brady Dale
Paul Bardetta (R) of Sydney, laughs as he talks with his celebrity date and local television host Brooke Sheehan (L), during an online dating promotion by Australia's only live, mobile dating website "Partner4Real", in Sydney, 17 September 2007. Over the next week Bardetta will date 20 women at his portable house on Circular Quay in Sydney, selecting one to take to Paris with him as a prize. AFP PHOTO/Greg WOOD
Sep 22

Here’s How (Awful, Awful) People Can Get Revenge on Tinder

By Brady Dale
Cybersecurity technology.
Sep 22

Change Your Password: This New Word List Makes the Diceware Method User Friendly

By Brady Dale
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