The debate around encryption is too focused on one side of the security coin, in particular its potential use for criminal purposes in times of terrorism. The other side of the security coin, is that weakening encryption protections may bring even bigger dangers to national and international security
Source : Apple-FBI case could have serious global ramifications for human rights: Zeid
Project Shield is a free service that uses Google technology to protect news sites and free expression from DDoS attacks on the web.
Source : Project Shield | Jigsaw
Sheri Pym, the federal judge, has ordered Apple not to turn off its encryption but to make it easier for federal agents to randomly guess the suspects’ iPhone passcode. Apple has built a security feature into iPhones so that a phone slows down anyone trying to “brute force” his way into a phone by guessing passcode after passcode.
Source : Apple ordered to decrypt iPhone of San Bernardino shooter for FBI | US news | The Guardian
Facebook ne manque pas d’imagination pour invalider une condamnation à son égard. Alors que, le 9 novembre 2015, le tribunal de première instance de Bruxelles a ordonné à l’entreprise d’arrêter de tracer les internautes belges non inscrits sur le réseau social, la firme californienne a décidé de faire appel : Facebook demande purement et simplement l’annulation de cette condamnation… sous prétexte que des termes anglophones ont été utilisés dans le jugement.
Source : En Belgique, Facebook digère mal les « cookies » de la justice
La Cour de cassation n’a pas encore tranché cette question de présomption, mais il n’est pas exclu qu’elle considère que le mur Facebook est présumé public. En effet, même si l’utilisateur prend soin d’activer les paramètres de confidentialité mis à sa disposition par Facebook, afin de limiter l’accès à ses propos uniquement à ses « amis proches » qui sont en nombre restreint, rien n’empêche ces derniers de les répercuter à leurs propres « amis ». En d’autres termes, les paramètres de confidentialité permettent difficilement à l’utilisateur de maîtriser l’audience de ses propos.
N’est-ce pas le cas de tous les propos privés ?
Source : Les salariés peuvent-ils parler de leur employeur librement sur Facebook ?
Officials were able to retrospectively locate park-goers for 12 months using anonymised mobile phone data provided by the network operator EE via a third party.Aggregated age and gender data was also made available during the initiative. If a zone of the park contained more than 50 people at once, it was possible to “drill down” to the aggregated demographic data of visitors to that area too, creating a detailed picture of how different people used the park in previous months .
Source : Hyde Park visitors covertly tracked via mobile phone data | World news | The Guardian
This report from the Berkman Center’s Berklett Cybersecurity Project offers a new perspective on the « going dark » debate from the discussion, debate, and analyses of an unprecedentedly diverse group of security and policy experts from academia, civil society, and the U.S. intelligence community.
Source : Berkman Center Report | Don’t Panic: Seeking Points of Agreement on the « Going Dark » Debate
Gyrometers in phones can measure small movements, while GPS and accelerometers show how often a vehicle starts and stops, as well as its overall speed. If a rider complains that a driver accelerated too fast and broke too hard, we can review that trip using data. If the feedback is accurate, then we can get in touch with the driver. And if it’s not, we could use the information to make sure a driver’s rating isn’t affected.
Source : Curb Your Enthusiasm | Uber Global
While staying as a guest in the property, at night Mrs. Schumacher would sleep without any clothing, believing that with the front door closed and the window blinds drawn throughout the property, she was protected and free from prying eyes. This natural presumption proved to be incorrect.
Source : Woman sues Airbnb after finding hidden camera in her rental | Ars Technica
Driving Mode is a clever new version of navigation mode that uses your location history and web searches to make assumptions about where you’re going and give traffic updates and ETAs as you travel. It’s sort of like the commute feature for work and home addresses, but with some data-mining genius to make it more flexible. The new mode can be launched with a shortcut on the homescreen or from the nav drawer.
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