The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data

Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming ...

On Executive Order 12333

Mark Jaycox has written a long article on the US Executive Order 12333: “No Oversight, No Limits, No Worries: A Primer on Presidential Spying and Executive Order 12,333“: Abstract: Executive Order 12,333 ...
Privacy Settings for Amazon Echo and Google Home

Privacy Settings for Amazon Echo and Google Home

In episode 102 of our July monthly show Scott and Tom walk-through the recommended privacy settings for Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers. ** Links mentioned on the show ** 8 ...
threat intelligence

Threat Intelligence in a Big Data World

Threat intelligence is an important piece of any size organization’s cybersecurity system. But effective threat intelligence often fails is because threat analysis teams aren’t aligning themselves to the business, so they may ...
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personal data

Personal Data Collection: Outsourcing Surveillance

The buying and selling of personal data means more entities are able to conduct surveillance without needing a warrant There’s an old joke that in communism that the government represses rights, takes ...
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Forbrukerrådet: New Study's Conclusion - The Advertising Industry Are Law Breakers On A Massive Scale

Forbrukerrådet: New Study’s Conclusion – The Advertising Industry Are Law Breakers On A Massive Scale

Outstanding reports - via Norwegian Forbrukerrådet detailing the systematic criminal behavior exhibited by Advertising Entites and their Ilk, with the resultant aglommeration of data which permits them to collect and store an ...
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Data Ethics: The Next Wave of Employee Security Awareness?

Data ethics aims to improve overall security by making employees view data differently Just imagine what a difference it could make to your security and privacy goals if your employees instinctively treated ...
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Steps to make your website GDPR Compliant

The post Steps to make your website GDPR Compliant appeared first on CCSI ...
Data of Nearly 12 Million Patients Leaked Online

Data of Nearly 12 Million Patients Leaked Online

Personal and medical data of almost 12 million patients may have been compromised in a breach at American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a bill collector for medical companies including lab testing center ...
Consumers increasingly leery of companies capitalizing on their private data

Consumers increasingly leery of companies capitalizing on their private data

Internet users are increasingly distrustful when it comes to big companies collecting and selling their private data to advertisers and others. At the same time, nearly half of customers feel disarmed, or ...