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German security researchers from Security Research Lab created a suite of apps for Google and Amazon smart speakers that did trivial things for their users, appeared to finish and go dormant, but w…
Tsunami Democràtic is a radical, decentralized wing of the resurgent Catalan independence movement, centered around an anonymously authored app designed to coordinate revolutionary uprisings.
The CEO argues essentially, that the arc of the moral universe is long, but as long as people have a voice (on Facebook) it bends toward justice
Slate’s Use of Your Data
Afscheidsinterview met CTIVD-voorzitter Harm BrouwerHij werd vlak na de onthullingen van EdwardSnowden voorzitter van de CTIVD en kreeg daarna de ‘Sleepwet’ voor de kiezen.Nu neemt Harm Brouwer afscheid. In een interview met Argos blikt de toezichthouder op de inlichtingendiensten terug op een roerige periode. ‘De impact van de nieuwe inlichtingenwet is door iedereen enorm onderschat.’Bij zijn aantreden benadrukte de nieuwe voorzitter van de Commissie van Toezicht op de Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten al meteen dat de wereld drastisch was veranderd. ‘Denkt men werkelijk dat de geheime diensten alleen nog maar bezig zijn met toestemming vragen om brieven open te maken?, vroeg Brouwer zich retorisch af. Het was een jaar nadat oud-NSA-medewerker Edward Snowden de modus operandi van inlichtingendiensten had blootgelegd. De Amerikanen en hun bondgenoten bleken de data van honderden miljoenen burgers te verzamelen. ‘Snowden heeft met zijn onthullingen de samenleving gevoelig gemaakt voor het werk van de diensten’, concludeert Brouwer vijf jaar later. ‘En ik vind dat een geheime dienst gegeven de aard van het werk dat ze doen, ook een kritische samenleving moet hebben.’
Donotpay started as a project to help people automatically fight parking tickets, before its then-teenaged creator, the UK-born Stanford computer science undergrad Joshua Browder expanded it to hel…
Security research Ophir Harpaz was trying to book a flight using Onetravel; as she browsed available itineraries, she couldn’t help but notice a prominent warning that “39 people are lo…
Earlier this month, Google announced a new collection of auto-delete settings for your personal information that allows you balance some of the conveniences of data-collection (for example, remembe…
Google presented a vision of ambient computing that goes beyond the smartphone. The company is well-placed, but faces challenges both in the marketplace and in the mirror.
It’s an old story: someone searches Google for a common keyword — “jews,” “women,” “black people” — and gets back a bunch of far-right conspira…
Als een ezel tussen twee hooischelven vroeg ik me vorige week af op welke kop ik zou klikken. Koos ik voor de krantenkop van het Algemeen Dagblad? „Streep door gehate wet rol verpleegkundigen”. Of zou ik vallen voor het nieuwsbericht van RTL? „Omstreden wetsvoorstel verpleegkundigen van de baan.”Vorig jaar, toen u nog jong en onschuldig was, zou u uw schouders hebben opgehaald over zo’n vraag.
The behavioural scientist has advised tech companies on how to get people hooked – now he’s telling us how to break the habit• Follow Eyal’s guide to avoiding digital distraction
The Volfefe Index measures how much the President's tweets affect volatility in the bond market. In 2017, we launched our own investing project based on the President's tweets.
There are more than 100m Alexa-enabled devices in our homes. But are they fun time-savers or the beginning of an Orwellian nightmare
As former MEP Marietje Schaake (previously) writes, “Can we please stop calling Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc ‘The online public square’? They’re ad companies. It is like calling a billbo…
Essay: Silicon Valley deed lang chic met TED Talks en een zogenaamde ‘derde cultuur’ van tech-denkers. Meer dan pr was het niet, schrijft Evgeny Morozov .
[Stanford’s Daphne Keller is a preeminent cyberlawyer and one of the world’s leading experts on “intermediary liability” — that is, when an online service should be he…
Coraline Ada Ehmke’s Hippocratic License is a software license that permits the broad swathe of activities enabled by traditional free/open licenses, with one exception it bars use by: “…
Attorney general William Barr seems eager to reignite the encryption wars, starting with the social media giant.
The popular app doesn’t tell users when a video was posted. Creators say that makes it easier to steal content—but there are also upsides to forgetting what day it is.
Chinese-owned social media app bans such content even in countries where homosexuality has never been illegal
Machine learning systems are pretty good at finding hidden correlations in data and using them to infer potentially compromising information about the people who generate that data: for example, re…
Hkmap Live is a crowdsourced app that uses reports from a Telegram group to track the locations of protesters, police, and traffic, as well as the use of antipersonnel weapons like tear gas, mass a…
A beauty from last February: Kyle McDonald tweeted redacted social media screenshots from a surveillance camera owner that emitted a steady stream of alerts because it saw a face in the garden R…
Instead of breaking up Facebook, America should create a public alternative.
Edward Snowden, late in the pages of his memoir, Permanent Record, describes his sensation at being personally introduced to XKEYSCORE, the NSA’s ultimate tool of intimate, individual electronic surveillance. Among the NSA’s technological tools (some of which Snowden aided in perfecting), XKEYSCORE was, according to Snowden, “the most invasive...if only because [the NSA agents are] closest to the user—that is, the closest to the person being surveilled.” For nearly three hundred pages, the memoir has built to this scene.
The curdling of the internet in 2012
The curdling of the internet in 2012
Edward Snowden, late in the pages of his memoir, Permanent Record, describes his sensation at being personally introduced to XKEYSCORE, the NSA’s ultimate tool of intimate, individual electronic surveillance. Among the NSA’s technological tools (some of which Snowden aided in perfecting), XKEYSCORE was, according to Snowden, “the most invasive...if only because [the NSA agents are] closest to the user—that is, the closest to the person being surveilled.” For nearly three hundred pages, the memoir has built to this scene.
*If he’d delivered this rant from a podium at South by South West in Austin instead of the floor of the UN, people would have just nodded thoughtfully, and even been rather pleased that a major G-7 politician was so up to speed with the mutant chickens.This article has been reproduced in a new format…
The British prime minister Boris Johnson has delivered his inaugural speech to the UN General Assembly just hours after the UK supreme court found his advice...
Let maar niet op mij. Ik heb nergens verstand van. Ik ben een jurist. Tot nu toe dacht ik in mijn ijdelheid dat ik, nou ja, verstand van de dingen had, maar ik had het mis. VVD-fractievoorzitter Klaas Dijkhoff heeft het me geleerd. Over de toekomst zei hij tijdens de Algemene Beschouwingen: „Ik heb er geen verstand van, als jurist.” Een strategie die we nog kennen van de Spaanse ober Manuel in de…
Edward Snowden recently released his memoirs. In some parts of the Internet, this has rekindled an ancient debate: namely, was it all worth it? Did Snowden’s leaks make us better off, or did …
What if you could create your own easily destructible website by just visiting a URL?
Privacy: In de populaire app Nextdoor praten bewoners met elkaar over hun buurt. Wat doet het bedrijf met die gegevens? Gebruikers die het niet vertrouwen willen hun data inzien.
The tech ethics movement has progressed to the point where various practitioners are trying to come up with a kind of oath of service, not unlike the fiduciary principle, or possibly the Hippocrati…
In this excerpt from his memoir, the NSA whistleblower describes his realization that no one should have to "pretend to be perfect."
Let’s face the truth. We are in an abusive relationship with our phones.
In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists.
Het meewerken aan het inbrengen van het Stuxnet-virus door de AIVD in nucleaire systemen in Iran vindt geen rechtvaardiging in de toen bekende feiten.
Eleanor Saitta’s (previously) 2016 essay “Coercion-Resistant Design” (which is new to me) is an excellent introduction to the technical countermeasures that systems designers can …
Early this month, Google’s Project Zero revealed a breathtaking attack on multiple OSes, including Apple’s Ios, in which a website that served Uyghur people was found to be hosting at l…
Early this month, Google’s Project Zero revealed a breathtaking attack on multiple OSes, including Apple’s Ios, in which a website that served Uyghur people was found to be hosting at l…
Indymedia defined an early era of networked protest — and showed us another way the web could work. The streets that night were carless. They were...
It didn’t go well.
Purism — Private and Secure Hardware, Software, and Services
Kevin Werbach considers the pitfalls and the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain, explored in three recent publications.
“Differential privacy” (previously) is a promising, complicated statistical method for analyzing data while preventing reidentification attacks that de-anonymize people in aggregated da…
I once found myself staying in a small hotel with a “State Department” family whose members clearly all worked for some kind of three letter agency (the family patriarch had been with U…
If your crush isn’t on Dating, doesn’t create a Secret Crush list, or doesn’t put you on their list — then no one will know that you’ve entered their name.
Op pagina twee van NRC las ik vorige week een angstaanjagend bericht. Er is een nieuw tijdperk aangebroken,
New records obtained by the Appeal show the account seems to have been monitoring Black Lives Matter activists for years.
De zomer is voorbij en er moet weer gewerkt worden. Daarom bezoek ik borrels en recepties waar mensen samenkomen in het voornemen fris aan de slag te gaan. Nog een laatste bitterbal, daarna wordt het ernst. En omdat ik schrijver ben, leggen de receptiegangers me uit hoe corruptie in hun kringen werkt, dan ben ik ook weer bijgepraat. „Jij weet het natuurlijk niet, want jij leeft in je eigen veilige…
Staten hacken elkaar en infiltreren elkaars netwerken. Nederland is zeker niet alleen slachtoffer van deze internationale digitale wapenwedloop. Sterker: de Nederlandse geheime diensten lopen daarin voorop. Dit laat het onthullende boek van Volkskrant-journalist Huib Modderkolk zien.
China is intercepting texts from WeChat users living outside of the country, mostly from the U.S. Taiwan, South Korea, and Australia. NPR reports:
The popular Chinese messaging app WeChat is Zhou Fengsuo's most reliable communication link to China. That's because he hasn't been back in over two dec...
The popular Chinese messaging app WeChat is Zhou Fengsuo's most reliable communication link to China. That's because he hasn't been back in over two dec...
Created by Richard Vijgen, 'WiFi Impressionist' is a field installation inspired by the cityscapes of William Turner that imagines the city as an electromagnetic landscape.
Image taken from Roche et al 2014 A lot of the contemporary debate around digital surveillance and data-mining focuses on privacy. Thi...
The absurd and remarkable story of Sealand, a “micronation” on an eerie metal platform, tells us plenty about libertarianism, national sovereignty, and the lawlessness of the ocean.