January 23, 2023 Using Aliases to Improve Privacy Our email addresses and cell phone numbers have become highly valuable identifiers for marketers. Like government-issued IDs, your email address and phone number are…
January 9, 2023 Privacy Tide is Turning Facebook stock is down 65%, they just paid $725M to settle the Cambridge Analytica lawsuit, and they’ve just been fined over $400M by the…
December 26, 2022 Building a Better Private Network All our devices and apps use the internet these days. But what are they doing on the internet, exactly? Who are they talking to?…
November 14, 2022 Surveying the Digital Explosion Connected computers have changed the world perhaps more than any other single invention. The impacts of nearly instant global communication and effectively infinite, perfect…
October 31, 2022 Building Trust with Privacy It’s easy to tell people to use this or that privacy tool, but this always assumes that you trust the service that is providing…
October 10, 2022 Mobile Payment Fraud Cold hard cash is becoming more and more rare these days. People just don’t carry it around much any more. So how do you…
September 19, 2022 Tornado Warning for Free Speech You may not be into cryptocurrency, but a recent incident involving a so-called “cryptocurrency mixer” has some important implications for privacy and free speech….
August 22, 2022 Hacker Summer Camp 2022 If it’s August in Las Vegas, it’s time for Hacker Summer Camp. There are three hacker conferences that coordinate to happen next to each…
August 15, 2022 Privacy vs Content Moderation There’s no doubt that the internet has enabled criminals to share illicit and vile content with ease. The advent of high-quality end-to-end encrypted communications…
August 1, 2022 No Place Left to Hide Cameras are everywhere. Every person you pass on the street has a camera on their phone and security cameras are everywhere. They’re so cheap…