The government’s Online Safety Bill has good points – online safety for everyone especially the vulnerable – and bad points – reducing the privacy of law abiding citizens is no way to combat serious crime – make sure you know how it could impact you. Forgetting the party political message …
The Electronic Frontier Foundation 2022 Privacy Review
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) defends freedom on and offline and advocates for technology to enhance those freedoms – it has a series of blog posts looking at its work in 2022: 2022 Year in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org) One of the most interesting ongoing privacy battle the …
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Do you want to buy a Twitter account?
It appears that information relating to hundreds of millions of Twitter accounts is available for sale: Stolen info on 400m+ Twitter accounts supposedly up for sale • The Register But who speaks for Twitter? Don’t try and question Twitter about this alleged leak or try to follow what Twitter publicly …
Should the real-time online tracking of aircraft be censored?
Some background reading for Christmas: Elon Musk and the Dangers of Censoring Real-Time Flight Trackers | WIRED UK I think privacy is the start of good cyber security, but where does privacy finish and it become censorship – and if Elon’s plane is not tracked and publicised, then why is …
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Meta settles the Cambridge Analytica case
Over-sharing and lack of oversight can cost a lot of money: Meta settles Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725m – BBC News The Cambridge Analytica Files | The Guardian
