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Privacy International
Who? Privacy International’s mission is to defend the right to privacy across the world, and to fight surveillance and other intrusions into private life by governments and corporations. Our vision is a world in which privacy is protected by governments, respected by corporations and cherished by individuals.
Strong privacy and security rules are crucial to the success of the new health insurance exchanges mandated by the Health Care Reform.1 These exchanges will require new and unique exchanges of data among state agencies, the federal government, private health plans, businesses, individuals and the exchange itself.
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The Verizon DBIR says hacktivists conduct opportunistic attacks targeting mainly large businesses using tactics akin to a smash-and-grab burglary, stealing any data they can access.
Information Security: Covering today's security topics
Last week, CDT organized the first West Coast PrivacyCamp , focused on privacy in social networks. The turnout was great – with representatives attending from Twitter, Google, EFF, ACLU, Rapleaf and many other Silicon Valley standouts.
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John Gilmore (born 1955) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation , the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions .
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John Naughton on WikiLeaks | Technology | The Observer
John Gilmore, campaigner against internet censorship.
Schneier on Security
Aviation officials have questioned the need for such a strong permanent police presence at airports, suggesting they were there simply "to make the government look tough on terror". One senior executive said in his experience, the officers were expensive window-dressing. "When you add the body scanners, the ritual humiliation of old ladies with knitting needles and the farcical air marshals, it all adds up to billions of dollars to prevent what?
Security theater is a term that describes security countermeasures intended to provide the feeling of improved security while doing little or nothing to actually improve security. [ 1 ] The term was coined by computer security specialist and writer Bruce Schneier for his book Beyond Fear , [ 2 ] but has gained currency in security circles, particularly for describing airport security measures. It is also used by some experts such as Edward Felten [ 3 ] to describe the airport security repercussions due to the September 11 attacks .
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Enough Security Theater, Already
Bruce Schneier is not the first to suggest that the security mania at airports is not ‘real’ but a form of show, but he’s one of the most credible security analysts, today.
Daniel Solove
Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School . He is a Senior Policy Advisor at Hogan Lovells .
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The New York Times reported that Facebook would provide users with a downloadable archive containing many types of data that the company stores about users. Although the new archive contains more user information than Facebook first offered in 2010, Max Schrems, the German law student and founder of Europe v. Facebook , said that Facebook is still only providing 39 of 84 data categories.I'm looking for someone who would like to have a Foobar Mitzvah ceremony at the FSF's Libre Planet event in the Boston area next March.
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