by Itzel Martinez | May 25, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Someone Could Listen
The Russian state television network covered a story of anti-NSA pranksters who have set up recording devices in public places across the city of New York to gather information, and help locate terrorists. The following article touches upon why it is important to...
by Itzel Martinez | May 11, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Sharing Releases Control, You Can't Escape
This New York Times article covers the progress of police body cameras. We are now at the point where these cameras are being widely tested by police officers, and the question that seems to be troubling police departments is what to do with the videos recorded. Read...
by Itzel Martinez | Apr 27, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Someone Could Listen
AT&T, an American multinational telecommunications corporation, is being fined $25 million dollars because of customer data breaches where not only names and phone numbers were leaked, but also social security numbers. The breaches occurred when outsiders paid...
by Julia Bernd | Apr 20, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work, Sharing Releases Control
In the last couple of days, some interesting pieces caught our attention that speak to why privacy is important (online or offline). These two works hit the extremes in presentation and style, but make similar points: A serious opinion piece in the New York Times...
by Itzel Martinez | Mar 16, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work
Everyone downloads applications from the app store, but do you know what information you are giving up when you download a new application? Often mobile applications appear to be harmless, but are they? One example of a “harmless” application is the...
by Itzel Martinez | Mar 9, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work
Have we reached the era where we are no longer in charge of our privacy? One of the most popular telecommunications companies, AT&T, recently released a “supercookie”, an undeleteable cookie that tracks the web-browsing activity of its subscribers....
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