If the Ashley Madison hack was an inside job, then it shows that even strong protection against outside attacks isn’t necessarily enough to prevent a leak of private data.
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Firms want your data, but if they offer to pay it’s likely they stand to gain more than you do.
Analyzing big data sets holds the promise of big insights. But the axiom “garbage in, garbage out” is particularly apt, since conclusions can be only as good as the raw data itself.
When hackers take down companies in response to their actions, security chiefs need to know what the CEO is saying in public.
Declared ‘unachievable’ by a treasury watchdog, the zombie care.data scheme is back and still full of holes.
David Anderson’s report on surveillance isn’t a charter for online privacy but it could create problems for a government set on capturing all our data.
An independent review recommends greater transparency but ultimately concludes surveillance can continue.
Many questions remain about the hack on government employee data but the US has to treat the data theft as a high-level diplomatic incident.
Public anxiety and legal protections currently pose a major challenge to anyone wanting to introduce eye-scanning security technologies.
Researchers are tapping into some of the massive amounts data collected these days, which could include information about you. But how do they protect your privacy?
There are still unanswered questions about the data retention bill, but it’s now too late to get answers before it is passed into law.
Committee report reveals ‘citizens dossiers’ feared but never admitted to have existed for decades.
In the future it will be possible to donate our personal data to charitable causes. All sorts of data is recorded about us as we go about our daily lives – what we buy, where we go, who we call on the…
We live in a world increasingly dominated by our personal data. Some of those data we choose to reveal, for example, through social media, email and the billions – yes, billions – of messages, photos and…
Last week a proposal called the Freedom Act was defeated in the US Senate. The Freedom Act was to restrict whole-of-population collection of communications data which is currently permitted under the Patriot…
In writing, music, photography and other areas, “outdated” technologies have initially been valued for their retro, nostalgic appeal in the hipster culture. Vinyl is one of the most notable technologies…
There have been so many leaks, hacks and scares based on misuse or misappropriation of personal data that any thought that “big data” could provide benefits rather than only opportunities for harm may…
Autonomous vehicles, or self-driving cars, are likely to be seen more widely on roads in 2015. Already, legislation authorising the use of autonomous vehicles has been introduced in the US states of Nevada…
Governments around the world want to know a lot about who we are and what we’re doing online and they want communications companies to help them find it. We don’t know a lot about when companies hand over…
Online daters continue to express outrage about the revelation that OkCupid has been experimenting on users by telling them they matched well with people they had nothing in common with to see if they…
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