De weekendbijlage van onze website. Met deze keer onder meer ANPR, taxibedrijf Uber, veel NSA en, euh, pornosterren voor netneutraliteit. Enjoy!
- EU DNA Database Back on the Agenda. Following a debate on EU Justice and Home Affairs powers it has been revealed that the British Government is embarking upon a scheme that would give European states limited access to the UK DNA database and potentially pave the way to a linking of the UK and EU databases. – via Big Brother Watch
- Automakers Like TOTALLY Promise Not To Abuse The Ocean Of Location Data Their Cars Now Collect – via Techdirt
- Hacker Lexicon: What Is the Dark Web? – via Wired
“Alternatief” taxibedrijf Uber en privacy
- Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists
- Uber investigates top executive after journalist’s privacy was breached
- Sex and Uber’s ‘Rides of Glory’: The company tracks your one-night stands — and much more (en hier de oorspronkelijke blogpost uit 2012)
- “God View”: Uber Investigates Its Top New York Executive For Privacy Violations
ANPR
- Police captured a quarter million license plate records but only one helped solve a crime – via Privacy matters
Netneutraliteit
- Is the EU Giving Up on Net Neutrality? – via La Quadrature du Net
- Fake net neutrality ‘lite’ offered by European Council – rolling clock back to 2009 – via Net neutrality in Europe
- Alles Klar, Herr Kommissar? EU Oettinger’s Live Chat is Short, Deutsch – and anti-neutrality – via Net neutrality in Europe
NSA en co
- The good news about the ‘death’ of NSA reform: surveillance supporters may have dug their own grave – via the Guardian
- The NSA is having a hard time tracking ISIS, but is still very good at spying on the rest of us. “I call this the ‘security paradox’. It’s why dragnet surveillance isn’t just bad for democracy and liberty, but also terrible security policy. Dragnet surveillance doesn’t catch advanced terrorists or criminals. It just catches the rest of us.” – via Privacy Matters
- Before Snowden, a debate inside NSA. It appears that in 2009, several senior NSA officials objected to the NSA call-records collection program.- via Reuters
- Google’s secret NSA alliance: The terrifying deals between Silicon Valley and the security state- via Salon.com
- Keeping Secrets. Four decades ago, university researchers figured out the key to computer privacy, sparking a battle with the National Security Agency that continues today. – via Medium.com
- What does the NSA think of academic cryptographers? Recently-declassified document provides clues – via Scott Aaronson
Ouders en kinderen
- Parents: You Can’t Control Your Baby’s Digital Footprint A new study asked parents about their kids and online privacy. The researchers came up with something they call ‘privacy stewardship’. – via Slate
Oeps
- 81% of Tor Users Can be Easily Unmasked By Analysing Router Information – via The Hacker News
- Malware’s new target: your password manager’s password – via Ars Technica
Tot slot
- Toegegeven, je kan dit bezwaarlijk een vrouwvriendelijke video noemen. Maar, naast uiteraard de tussenkomst van president Obama, was ook dit een manier om de discussie rond netneutraliteit nog wat steviger op de agenda te zetten. Funny or Die trommelde een paar pornosterren op om het belang van netneutraliteit uit te leggen.
- Das hat die Welt noch nicht gesehen – Wat zeker en vast niet geldt voor bovenstaande video, geldt wel voor een heleboel andere video’s op YouTube: ze worden nooit aangeklikt. Websites als “Petit Tube” en “Underviewed” hebben er hun bestaansreden aan te danken. “Forgotify” doet hetzelfde voor Spotify. – via Zeit Online
En remember: “BE A WISE CITY, NOT A SMART CITY”