De weekendbijlage van onze website waarin we de meest markante berichten van de afgelopen week (of weken) nog eens op een rijtje zetten. Enjoy!
Top reads
- Trade Secrets: We Must Act To Protect Whistleblowers! (La Quadrature du Net)
- Pas op voor de handel in onze hartslag en bloeddruk (Sargasso)
Netneutraliteit
- Latest Net Neutrality proposal in the EU: a wolf in sheep’s clothing? (Access)
- EU annoys industry and activists with net neutrality proposal (The Register)
- De VS neemt netneutraliteit aan. Nu Europa nog. (Bits of Freedom)
- Alarm! Roaming blijft, netneutraliteit verkwanseld (Webwereld)
Internet of Things
Privacytools
- Signal 2.0: Private messaging comes to the iPhone (Open WhisperSystems)
- The way Signal is designed, it’s really hard to like (and I really would like to!) … (Jaap-Henk Hoepman)
- Silent Circle Unveils World’s First Enterprise Privacy Platform (Yahoo News)
- AVG Reveals Invisibility Glasses at Pepcom Barcelona
- Quote: “The benefits of widespread encryption use go beyond protecting your individual communications from snoops. Encryption prevents dragnet content surveillance, making truly Draconian, vacuum-style content surveillance ineffective. Widespread encryption adoption also makes it harder for the government to act like privacy is dangerous. After all, if everyone encrypts, how can the FBI argue cryptography is just for terrorists and criminals?” (ACLU)
Camerabewaking
- CCTV ‘fightcams’ detect violence ‘before it happens’ (The Telegraph)
Drones
Wereldwijd
- Frankrijk – Meet Casper: Yet Another Malware Likely Created by France for Surveillance (Motherboard)
- Brazilië – You Can’t Block Apps on the Free and Open Brazilian Internet (EFF)
- Turkije – Turkije blokkeert website Charlie Hebdo (Telegraaf)
- Nieuw-Zeeland – New Zealand spying on Pacific allies for ‘Five Eyes’ and NSA, Snowden files show (Guardian)
- Nieuw-Zeeland – Nieuw-Zeelandse douane wil afstaan wachtwoorden verplichten (security.nl)
- Paraguay – A New Bill in Paraguay Would Destroy Online Privacy (EFF)
En verder
- OECD: maker FinFisher-spyware schond mensenrechten (security.nl)
- International Rights Organizations Call for UN to Appoint Expert on Right to Privacy (Access)
- Obama comes out swinging in favor of strong encryption and against dragnet surveillance (Privacy SOS)
- NYPD buying nationwide car surveillance database for about half a million bucks (Boing Boing)
- License plate tracking corporation asks cops to stay mum on their use of controversial surveillance tool (Privacy SOS)
- Obama comes out swinging in favor of strong encryption and against dragnet surveillance (Privacy Matters)
- Belg krijgt taakstraf en 10.000 euro boete voor serversabotage (security.nl)
- Het best bewaarde geheim binnen Facebook: zonder paswoord inloggen op andermans account (Nieuwsblad)