November 21 – The Federal Trade Commission today released the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2022. The FTC’s National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry lets consumers add their phone number and choose not to receive most legal telemarketing calls. In the last fiscal year, over 2.5 [Read More…]
Alex Bellos reports: Rachel is a student at a US university who was sexually assaulted on campus. She decided against reporting it (fewer than 10% of survivors do). What she did, however, was register the assault on a website that is using novel ideas from cryptography to help catch serial sexual [Read More…]
Seen on the Centennial Man blog: Please help: The Privacy Foundation Seminar (Privacy and Legal Ethical Issues in AI and Machine Learning Software) has been Rescheduled for Friday November 18th This was due to a speaker issue. Prof Soma is now looking for replacements: local lawyers or business or computer science folks who [Read More…]
Martin Brinkmann reports: Secure and private VPN provider Mullvad discovered that Android devices may leak information when connected to VPN services, which can’t be prevented. According to Mullvad’s information, Android uses connectivity checks outside of the VPN tunnel when devices connect to wireless networks. What makes this even worse is that this [Read More…]