by Ty Davison | Sep 25, 2016 | News & Commentary
For decades, ever since a scandal in the 1980s in which Switzerland’s government was revealed to have been spying on tens of thousands of its citizens, the Swiss have been sceptical about state surveillance. CCTV cameras are rare; even Google Street View is...
by Ty Davison | Sep 3, 2016 | News & Commentary
This sort of thing is why we have a Fourth Amendment. “Whether the government has a warrant to rifle through our mail, safety deposit boxes, or emails stored in the cloud, it must notify people about the searches,†said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Lee Tien. “When...
by Ty Davison | Aug 31, 2016 | News & Commentary
http://fortune.com/2016/08/30/google-nest-developers-alphabet/Paid $3.2 billion to run a promising company into the ground.
by Ty Davison | Aug 30, 2016 | News & Commentary
Increasingly thinking it’s time to leave Facebook. This psychiatrist’s experience is just creepy.All these patients likely have Lisa’s number in their phones, so an algorithm analyzing this network of phone contacts might reasonably assume all these people are...
by Ty Davison | Aug 27, 2016 | News & Commentary
Thing is, did anyone really expect anything else to happen? Facebook paid over $20 billion for an app with a huge user base and no revenue stream. “WhatsApp obtained one billion users by promising that it would protect user privacy. Both Facebook and WhatsApp made...
