News

Hot Topix: The Great Breach of China

China Dan has stolen 23 Terabytes of personal data on 1 billion Chinese citizens from the Shanghai Police Department.

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When the Shark Bites

Many people struggling to make ends meet are resorting to the 21st century alternative to a loan shark – a data shark.

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Technology

Libra’s Impossible Position

Privacy Tech vs Libra Michael J. Casey, the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative published an opinion piece on CoinDesk…

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News

In Through the Back Door

Break encryption for one, and you break it for all – leaving every file on every computer accessible by everyone.

How can the result be anything but anarchy?

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Identity

iDentity

Apple recently announced that they will add digital identity documents to the Apple Pay wallet on iPhones and eight US states have joined the program – effectively selling their citizens’ identities to Apple.

Governments should not be giving control of their citizens’ identity to a Big Tech company, and neither should you.

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The Decentralists – Hot Topix: Proton Torpedoed

ProtonMail is used by journalists whistle blowers and activists all over the world precisely because its is secure, private and untraceable.

Until recently that is.

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News

The Arrogance of Big Tech

What is it about technology companies and their nearly universal disregard for users, regulators and even society? Swimming in huge piles of cash like Scrooge McDuck, have they forgotten the difference between right & wrong?

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Technology

Different is the new Normal

The COVID-19 pandemic has killed over 250,000 people (worldwide) and taken us to the brink of economic ruin but that does not mean that we should give up on civil…

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Social

Don’t Be the Next Cambridge Analytica – Dangers of Social Media APIs

The data leak from Cambridge Analytica was one of the most prominent data breaches ever.

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Technology

Metadata: Why You Should Care About It

This article is written by guest blogger Geoff Glave, a Decentralist at Manyone. Several messaging apps claim that their communications are encrypted “end-to-end”—meaning no one can read your messages. So when…

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