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Police Officers Fired for Sending Racist Private Text Messages

by Itzel Martinez | May 4, 2015 | Blog, Sharing Releases Control, Someone Could Listen, You're Leaving Footprints

Most people don’t think that the text messages they have sent in the past are likely to affect them in the future, but think again. SF Gate recently ran a story on Oakland police officers who are being fired for sending racist private text messages in the years...

Privacy Is Worth Millions

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...

President Proposes a $14 Billion Budget to Spend on Cybersecurity

by Itzel Martinez | Feb 5, 2015 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work, Someone Could Listen

President Obama has proposed a $14 billion budget to spend on cybersecurity in fiscal year 2016. Obama stated in his proposal that “No foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks, steal our trade secrets or invade the privacy of American...

What Happens When the Government Wants Your Data?

by Julia Bernd | Sep 22, 2014 | Blog, Information Is Valuable, Privacy Requires Work, Resources/How-Tos, Someone Could Listen

Every year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation publishes a report on major Internet sites and services called “Who Has Your Back”, along with a handy chart summarizing how each company or service deals with government requests for their users’...

TEDx Talk: What’s Wrong With Your Pa$$w0rd?

by Gerald Friedland | Jul 24, 2014 | Blog, Someone Could Listen

A talk by Lorrie Faith Cranor of Carnegie Mellon University. Check out the video here

New York Times: How Not to Pay the Price for Free Wi-Fi

by Dan Garcia | Jul 3, 2014 | Blog, Resources/How-Tos, Someone Could Listen

This is an important guide for those of us who need to balance the (often) conflicting desires to make use of a free WiFi service and maintain our privacy. It has four great suggestions we endorse. Read the article here
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