Encryption is essential for privacy when using the internet – hence the opposition to the UK Government’s Draft Online Safety Bill, that wants to put controls on the way you and I use encryption to protect the privacy of our private communications and transactions over the web. It is interesting …
Privacy in China and the Winter Olympics
There are some interesting articles being written about the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter games and the privacy of those who will be attending. The basic message seems to be take a burner phone with you. The issue is around the amount of personal data QI-ANXIN (an official sponsor …
E2EE – a new acronym for you – is it good or bad? Or why privacy is difficult.
Speaking purely with my cybersecurity hat on – end to end encryption (E2EE) is a very good thing, even an essential thing to preserve your and my privacy. It is a communications link method where only the parties at either end, for whom the communication was intended, can read and …
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You never know who is watching you?
Here is just a short article from The Guardian, that highlights some of the privacy we all give up. In this case though it benefited law enforcement who caught a wanted criminal who had been on the run using Google Street View. Italian mafia fugitive arrested in Spain after Google …
Your privacy tracked
You must remember that companies such as Alphabet and Meta, apparently give away services for free and so consequently have huge use bases for their apps. However the cost to you is usually some information about your usage, which they can then monetise, because it takes a lot of money …
