Tag: security
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Chinese Hacking Is Alarming. So Are Data Brokers.
Written by Charlie Warzel on New York Times.
“Using the personal data of millions of Americans against their will is certainly alarming. But what’s the difference between the Chinese government stealing all that information and a data broker amassing it legally without user consent and selling it on the open market?”
Via Aral.
Read ‘Chinese Hacking Is Alarming. So Are Data Brokers.’ on the New York Times site.
Tagged with: data brokers, security, privacy.
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Researchers Find ‘Anonymized’ Data Is Even Less Anonymous Than We Thought
Written by Karl Bode on Motherboard.
“They told Motherboard their tool analyzed thousands of datasets from data scandals ranging from the 2015 hack of Experian, to the hacks and breaches that have plagued services from MyHeritage to porn websites. Despite many of these datasets containing “anonymized” data, the students say that identifying actual users wasn’t all that difficult.
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For example, while one company might only store usernames, passwords, email addresses, and other basic account information, another company may have stored information on your browsing or location data. Independently they may not identify you, but collectively they reveal numerous intimate details even your closest friends and family may not know.
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The problem is compounded by the fact that the United States still doesn’t have even a basic privacy law for the internet era, thanks in part to relentless lobbying from a cross-industry coalition of corporations eager to keep this profitable status quo intact. As a result, penalties for data breaches and lax security are often too pathetic to drive meaningful change.”
Tagged with: anonymisation, privacy, security.
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Communities at risk: How security fails are endangering the LBGTIQ+ community
Written by Privacy International staff on Privacy International.
“This enables governments and companies to construct profiles of them, using these highly sensitive details to make inferences or predictions that may or may not be accurate. Increasingly, profiles are being used to make or inform consequential decisions, from credit scoring, to hiring, to policing.”
Tagged with: discrimination, security, profiling.
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Europe fights back
Last Friday’s Ind.ie roundup had more on corporate surveillance, a couple of great videos with Edward Snowden, and Europe fighting back against Google and Facebook.
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My Friday Roundup for Ind.ie
Every Friday I write a roundup of great links we at Ind.ie have seen over the last week. I’m not going to lie, it’s a lot of fun.
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