The Risks of Public Data
A desire for convenience and openness has left local and state public records easily available for mining, combining, and abuse.
The World Wired Web
Despite marketing imagery to the contrary, the “cloud” remains very much grounded in physical infrastructure, including unfathomable miles of wires.
Carpenter v. US: A Rare Win for Privacy Rights
The Supreme Court finally taps the brakes on the unrestrained collection of digital data by law enforcement.
What Facebook Knows
We’ve long known Facebook is selling our data to advertisers in a vague sense; now we can see what they’re hoarding and who’s buying.
The Problems of Prediction, Part 2
Our overconfidence in our predictive abilities can be traced to the simple fact that the universe is infinitely complex.
The Problems of Prediction, Part 1
Our technological mindset makes us more inclined to predict and gather ever-more data in service of prediction. We misunderstand the information we have, can’t know the information we don’t have, and yet we are more confident than ever.
America Needs the New EU Data Law You’ve Never Heard Of
The US has lagged behind Europe in safeguarding individual rights to protect and control data. A new EU law may unintentionally help US citizens.
The Care in Healthcare May Not Be So Easily Automated
Cost pressures are pushing doctors and hospitals to explore automating healthcare in various ways. Results thus far are mixed.
Highway Privacy: It Tolls for Thee
Massachusetts moves to all-electronic tolling on its toll roads. Your state may be next. But while it speeds travel, it removes another freedom: that of travelling anonymously.
Podcast #2: Bruce Schneier on the Golden Age of Surveillance
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Internet security expert, privacy advocate, and author Bruce Schneier speaks with the Technoskeptic about the public-private surveillance partnership that monitors everything we do, and what needs to happen in order to restore our privacy.