{"id":17495,"date":"2014-06-14T07:51:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T14:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17495"},"modified":"2014-06-14T07:51:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T14:51:23","slug":"computer-security-and-privacy-links-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/14\/computer-security-and-privacy-links-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer security and privacy links roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been saving these to write some larger think-piece about e-privacy. But not happening, so here you go &#8212; the good and bad news about what &#8220;they&#8221; are doing to you online and on cell. And how some smart people are resisting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internet biggies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/07\/technology\/internet-giants-erect-barriers-to-spy-agencies.html\" target=\"_blank\">adding privacy protections<\/a>. (Thank you, Edward Snowden.)\n<li>And speaking of Snowden, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lp.org\/news\/press-releases\/edward-snowden-internets-largest-websites-join-reset-the-net\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s joined up<\/a> with the Reset the Net effort.\n<li>In case you missed it, NPR&#8217;s Steve Henn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2014\/06\/10\/320347267\/project-eavesdrop-an-experiment-at-monitoring-my-home-office\" target=\"_blank\">did an interesting series<\/a> this week (more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2014\/06\/12\/320997037\/how-well-do-tech-companies-protect-your-data-from-snooping\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2014\/06\/13\/321389989\/heres-one-big-way-your-mobile-phone-could-be-open-to-hackers\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) with some jaw-dropping creepiness (with special relevance to smartphone users). Hm. Seems those added privacy protections aren&#8217;t doing much for users yet.\n<li>And why are those big Internet companies pretending to care about our privacy? Because it&#8217;s good marketing, these days. They position themselves as protectors while they gather and plan to share <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/parmyolson\/2014\/06\/12\/exclusive-google-to-launch-health-service-google-fit-at-developers-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">our fitness data<\/a> and use more of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2014\/06\/12\/321325434\/facebook-ad-targeting-will-use-even-more-of-your-data\" target=\"_blank\">our browsing data<\/a> to advertise at us.\n<li>The newest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/with-new-hack-cellphone-can-get-data-out-of-computers\/\" target=\"_blank\">air-gap hack<\/a>. And yes, this involves cellphones, too.\n<li>Meanwhile, &#8220;the most transparent administration in history&#8221; intervenes down to the local police level to ensure that we <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/us-pushing-local-cops-stay-174613067.html\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t find out<\/a> how they&#8217;re monitoring us. (H\/T O.)\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been saving these to write some larger think-piece about e-privacy. But not happening, so here you go &#8212; the good and bad news about what &#8220;they&#8221; are doing to you online and on cell. And how some smart people are resisting. Internet biggies adding privacy protections. (Thank you, Edward Snowden.) And speaking of Snowden, he&#8217;s joined up with the Reset the Net effort. In case you missed it, NPR&#8217;s Steve Henn did an interesting series this week (more here and here) with some jaw-dropping creepiness (with special relevance to smartphone users). Hm. Seems those added privacy protections aren&#8217;t doing much&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/14\/computer-security-and-privacy-links-roundup\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computer security and privacy links roundup<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}