The page tells you they take privacy seriously, but with that I guess they mean they seriously don’t think you should have any. I guess this is the reason it’s only available for OSX or iphone – only Apple people would be dumb enough to send literally all their data to some company. Source: Atlas Read more about Atlas Recall will slurp your data and allow you to find it back from any (cough) device[…]

Images representing 117 million American adults – almost half the grownups in the country – can be found in the facial recognition databases maintained by US law enforcement agencies, according to a study conducted by the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law School. That figure is expected to grow as facial recognition technology Read more about Meanwhile, in America: Half of adults’ faces are in police databases[…]

Investigators in Lancaster, Calif., were granted a search warrant last May with a scope that allowed them to force anyone inside the premises at the time of search to open up their phones via fingerprint recognition, Forbes reported Sunday.The government argued that this did not violate the citizens’ Fifth Amendment protection against self incrimination because Read more about Using search warrants to get into fingerprint-locked phones[…]

The mysterious Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which oversees Blighty’s snoops, has ruled that the bulk collection of personal data — conducted by GCHQ and MI5 between 1998 and 2015 — was illegal. Responding to a claim brought by Privacy International, the 70-page judgment handed down this morning [PDF] found that the spooks’ surveillance activities had been Read more about Court finds GCHQ and MI5 engaged in illegal bulk data collection[…]

The Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry (BCIR) is intended to prevent a repeat of faulty Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) silicone breast implants scandal in 2010, in which fraudulently manufactured silicone gel implants affected thousands of women. Its establishment is in response to recommendation 21 in Sir Bruce Keogh’s Review of the Regulation of Cosmetic interventions, Read more about UK wants to monitor fake boobs, claims event 6 years ago is catalyst[…]

Malicious code used to press-gang IoT connected devices into a botnet was leaked online over the weekend.The Mirai malware is a DDoS Trojan and targets Linux systems and, in particular, IoT devices. A botnet formed using the malware was used to blast junk traffic at the website of security researcher Brian Krebs last month in Read more about Source code unleashed for junk-blasting Internet of Things botnet[…]

Signal has resisted a FBI subpoena and gag order that demanded a wide range of information on two users resulted in a federal grand jury investigation in Virginia. The makers of Signal, Open Whisper Systems, profoundly disappointed law enforcement. The app collects as little data as possible and therefore was unable to hand anything useful Read more about Encryption app Signal wins fight against FBI subpoena and gag order[…]

A thourough and scary analysis of what you can do with just metadata, applied to the hacking team leak. A great case for mistrusting metadata storage by anyone. https://labs.rs/en/metadata/

Nvidia’s GeForce Experience 3.0 is better than ever before, but you need to sign up to use it. Source: Nvidia’s faster, better GeForce Experience 3.0 launches with mandatory registration | PCWorld Sigh. We buy their products already, so they don’t actually need to monetise our private lives 🙁

The FCC has been formally regulating behavioural advertising since the 1990s. You’d think they’d be all over Google and Facebook, then, right? Actually, no. The FCC is now run by a former Obama fund-raiser, Tom Wheeler, and it can’t do enough for Silicon Valley, whether it’s collectivising songwriters rights or disaggregating TV. What the FCC Read more about Google’s become an obsessive stalker and you can’t get a restraining order[…]

NO, there is no opt out! The Dutch government has passed a law allowing insurance companies to access medical files with a “suspicion of fraud” (whatever that is) and only have to tell the person who’s privacy has been infringed three months later. Medical privacy is one of the last untouchable bastions of privacy, I Read more about NL Gov gets rid of medical confidentiality[…]

145 public authorities acquired data in 2015, and most of these requests came from the UK’s police forces and law enforcement agencies. Law enforcement officers acquired 93.7 per cent of all data requested by public authorities in 2015. Only 5.7 per cent of data was acquired by the intelligence agencies, and a mere 0.6 by Read more about UK Gov is open about how much it spied on its’ citizens[…]