This is your must-read for today, by Jonathan Zittrain. Here’s a portion of his thoughtful essay about the large-scale hacks, data dumps of private communications, and media reporting on same: But before we consume the fast food meal of messages containing private citizens’ unguarded moments with friends and move on, [Read More…]
Rae Johnston reports: Lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has called on all political parties to support encryption and privacy technologies, as it was revealed where a selection of the major parties stand on surveillance, encryption, copyright issues and censorship. Read more on Gizmodo (AU). In an Open Letter to [Read More…]
Cory Bennett reports: Over half of presidential campaign-related smartphone apps on Android devices are exposing users’ sensitive data, according to new research. Presidential campaigns — and the groups that support them — are increasingly using smartphone apps to try to attract voters. Yet those behind these apps have not taken [Read More…]
Michael T. Bucci writes: What are the positions of U.S. presidential candidates on NSA domestic spying, personal privacy and the Fourth Amendment?….. Donald Trump would be “fine” with restoring provisions of the Patriot Act to allow the NSA to once again collect American phone metadata in bulk. Ted Cruz has denounced hoarding [Read More…]