Matt Taibbi: The War on Privacy by Retards

The War on Privacy Five years ago, official abuses of secrecy were the scandal. Today, the scandal is you The irony, part two. Only available to paying subscribers. Subscription highly recommended.

Robert Steele: A New Internet Protocol? California Startup Toughens Stance on Data Privacy With New Internet Protocol UPDATE: That Will Not Work

This has broad implications.  It is not at all certain they have mastered the nuances but they trying to be creative.  They have NOT consulted Kaliya “Identity Woman” Young, which is a negative, I understand they may be rectifying that oversight now. My vritual CTO is very negative on them with this statement: Creating a …

Penguin: How ZCoin’s Privacy Technology Compares to the Competition

How Zcoin’s Privacy Technology Compares to the Competition Unlike the previous anonymity schemes which involve obscuring the real transactions with other inputs or transactions, the Zerocoin protocol completely breaks the transaction links between coins through the use of zero-knowledge proofs. This anonymity scheme is not without some drawbacks. In return for the huge anonymity set …

Berto Jongman: Future IoT Needs Privacy & Security by Design

IoT Future Needs Privacy, Security by Design “A significant number of smart devices, including smart CCTV cameras, thermostats or smart TVs, are insecure by design,” said Petrus. “It’s not even possible to make some of them more secure as they’ve been made with hard-coded account names and passwords that can’t be changed.”

#GoogleGestapo: Facebook & Google Obscure & Manipulate Privacy Settings

Facebook and Google use ‘dark patterns’ around privacy settings, report says Facebook, Google and Microsoft push users away from privacy-friendly options on their services in an “unethical” way, according to a report by the Norwegian Consumer Council. It studied the privacy settings of the firms and found a series of “dark patterns”, including intrusive default …

Martin Armstrong: All Digital Agreements Waiving Privacy are Unconstitutional

The Right to Privacy Means Nothing ANSWER: Our entire loss of privacy rights should be a major class action lawsuit. To sign up for anything, they have tremendous detailed legal agreements where effectively you wave all your rights to privacy. It is a situation where UNLESS you wave your rights, you cannot participate in the digital world. My personal …