Research is showing that Microsoft’s Office 365 Message Encryption is good for privacy – as it makes accessing the message difficult, rather than security, putting the message out of reach of anyone but the recipient. Microsoft disputes report on Office 365 Message encryption issue after awarding bug bounty – The …
Data Sovereignty. You should get involved…
So I have just finished reading this piece, on The Register: Just how critical is data sovereignty? • The Register It is sponsored by Intel and is collecting research information on how organisations think about their data sovereignty. Not sure what data sovereignty is? Here is an example, you collect …
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That old chestnut again – yours and my privacy
Let me say this before I start, I support any action both legal and technical that will be effective in preventing the exploitation of the vulnerable. We support this government initiative (check the page footer): Let’s stop abuse together I like parts of the government’s forthcoming Online Safety Bill and …
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Were you a lab rat?
Here is an interesting article about privacy, looking at how LinkedIn (Microsoft) loosely interpreted its privacy policies so it could experiment on twenty million users: Experts debate the ethics of LinkedIn’s algorithm experiments on 20M users | Ars Technica
Tor for privacy
I am a user of the Tor browser – it was built for privacy, especially useful for politicians, journalists and activists – which is why the US Government has a hand in its development. There are now reports that a rogue Tor browser was distributed to Chinese users which did …
