December 13, 2021 End Run Around Your Rights The rampant collection and sharing of personal data is not just a creepy nuisance. Surveillance capitalism has actually had seriously deleterious effects on society…
May 17, 2021 Protecting Intellectual Freedom (Part 2) What is Tor, exactly? How and why would I use it? And what the heck is a Tor node? In part 2 of my…
April 26, 2021 Hunting for Stingrays (Part 2) While law enforcement touts the benefits of cell site simulators, today we will talk about the negative impacts, as well. While the actual impacts…
April 19, 2021 Hunting for Stingrays (Part 1) The single easiest way to track someone today is using their cell phone. We have them with us at all times and in order…
February 15, 2021 Not Just a Face in the Crowd Ep207. Clearview AI – the company that has hoovered up every face it can find on the internet to create a creepy person identifying…
February 1, 2021 Stop Watching Me! Tracking and data mining has gotten way out of hand. We’re not only being tracked online, we’re now being tracked around the real world,…
November 9, 2020 Zoom: Now with Actual Privacy Zoom went from an obscure teleconferencing company to a household word when the pandemic hit. Zoom wasn’t the best videoconferencing app by any means….
August 17, 2020 This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (part 2) Can Facebook or Google really promise to keep your data private in this era of mass surveillance by the likes of the NSA and…
August 10, 2020 This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (part 1) What good are privacy laws when we all know that intelligence agencies don’t play by the rules? How can any company promise to keep…
April 13, 2020 Contact Tracing, Privately As health services and society in general struggle to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, people are desperately seeking new and inventive ways to curb…
