Surveillance

2020-03-26T08:25:35+01:00

From the A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (Eric Hughes, 1993): “Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. … We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other …

2020-03-25T20:00:13+01:00

Self-described cypherpunk Harry Halpin talks with Coindesk about his company’s (Nym Technologies) vision for privacy solutions at the network level a world where privacy is …

2020-02-07T14:09:43+01:00

AT Spui25 in Amsterdam for the book launch of “Secrecy and Methods in Security Research”. The pannelists gave presentations about their chapters in the book and discussed how they …

2020-02-04T12:03:59+01:00

Abacus, a unit of the South China Morning Post, published an article on how facial recognition technology is causing issues in China as people wear masks as a preventive measure …

2019-03-07T14:18:04+01:00

Today Mark Zuckerberg accounced his new vision for Facebook as a more privacy-focused company. The principal change he thinks should be to have interoperable end-to-end encryption …

2019-02-14T09:22:05+01:00

Hettie O’Brien writes in an article on The New Statesman on the fantasies of tech solutionism for Irish border: The logic here is peak Silicon Valley: technology vacates policies …

2019-02-05T17:30:36+01:00

Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet announced a new tool for urban planners to use. Brenda McPhail, director of the Canadian Civil Liberties …

2019-02-05T16:58:07+01:00

According to this article by The Intercept some prisons in the U.S. are capturing the voices of incarcerated people’s voice to create new biometric databases with their “voice …