Bruce Schneier at CUNY Crypto Conference: “We’ve made bulk collection too easy”
Like everyone else following the news about the Snowden papers, I’m aware of the basic facts. Bulk collection of phone metadata, and taps on Yahoo …
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Metadata Inferencing Meme Goes Mainstream
Knock me down with a feather. As a techy blogging bystander, I’ve been watching as the non-technical media world figures out the implications of the …
We Told You So: FBStalker and Mining Facebook Connections
In late 2012, we interviewed NYU-Poly’s Professor Keith Ross about his research into privacy loopholes in Facebook. Ross showed it was possible to work out …
Metadata Chronicles: NYT Beginning to Realize the NSA Builds Social Attribute Network
It is interesting and vaguely rewarding in a bloggy kind of way to watch The New York Times start connecting the dots and realizing that …
Paul Revere’s Random Ride: Metadata And Social Attribute Networks
Like everyone else, I read Kieran Healy’s post on Paul Revere, the mostly highly connected person in Boston circa 1770. Healy, a sociologist at Duke, …
Right to be Forgotten Hits Speed Bump: Google Not a Data Controller
The European Court of Justice ruled today that Google is not obligated to remove links that point to inaccurate or stale content. The case originally …