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Web firm fights US government over protester data in fresh clash on data

A web hosting firm is fighting a demand by US prosecutors for data on visitors to a site organizing a protest during the inauguration of President Donald Trump in a fresh clash over digital privacy rights.

The firm DreamHost said it was challenging a warrant seeking to identify the visitors of the protest site DisruptJ20, which organized a demonstration against Trump at the time of his swearing-in on January 20.

Web firm fights US government over protester data in fresh clash on data

Nico Sell: ‘To me, the NSA and Edward Snowden are just the tip of the iceberg’

You’ve claimed that privacy is the new fame. Can you explain that?
It’s now so difficult to be private that it will be the new state everyone strives for. But I don’t think we have to convince people of the need for privacy, it’ll just happen naturally… [just as] fashion is always going from skinny jeans to bell-bottoms and back again. The generation below always over-corrects to the one before, and you can already see this happening.

Nico Sell: ‘To me, the NSA and Edward Snowden are just the tip of the iceberg’

3 Security Tips For Every User From NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden is one of the most wanted men in America. The NSA-tapping whistle-blower fled to Russia for fear of arrest but risked exposing his location to speak to the crowd at South by Southwest.

Snowden appeared live via Google Hangouts to discuss the future of cybersecurity alongside privacy advocates and security gurus Ben Wizner and Christopher Soghoian of the ACLU. His revelations about the American government agency's mass surveillance tactics shocked the world in June 2013 and exposed the security weaknesses of Google, Apple, Facebook, and many of the other services cybercitizens use every day.

3 Security Tips For Every User From NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden – ReadWrite.

Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance

One of the trends we've seen is how, as the word of the NSA's spying has spread, more and more ordinary people want to know how (or if) they can defend themselves from surveillance online. But where to start?

The bad news is: if you're being personally targeted by a powerful intelligence agency like the NSA, it's very, very difficult to defend yourself. The good news, if you can call it that, is that much of what the NSA is doing is mass surveillance on everybody. With a few small steps, you can make that kind of surveillance a lot more difficult and expensive, both against you individually, and more generally against everyone.

Ten Steps You Can Take Right Now Against Internet Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Threat modeling and finding the right level of online privacy for you.

A few short weeks ago, we were conducting a security training for a group of journalists in Palestine. The journalists were deeply aware of the potential threats facing them—and by not one, but three governments—but didn’t have the first idea of how to mitigate against those threats. “It’s too confusing!” claimed one, while another said it was futile.

Threat modeling and finding the right level of online privacy for you..

Apple discloses what it's sharing with governments

We've been hearing a lot lately about the US government secretly gathering information from Google, Yahoo, and other tech giants.

But what about Apple?

The Cupertino-based corporation, not yet caught up in the NSA scandals, has decided to take disclosure into its own hands. They've issued a report detailing what type of information they are sharing with what national governments.

Apple discloses what it's sharing with governments | PCWorld.

Opinion: Your Life, Under Constant Surveillance

Historically, surveillance was difficult and expensive.

Over the decades, as technology advanced, surveillance became easier and easier. Today, we find ourselves in a world of ubiquitous surveillance, where everything is collected, saved, searched, correlated and analyzed.

But while technology allowed for an increase in both corporate and government surveillance, the private and public sectors took very different paths to get there. The former always collected information about everyone, but over time, collected more and more of it, while the latter always collected maximal information, but over time, collected it on more and more people. 

Opinion: Your life, under constant surveillance - CNN.co

How Edward Snowden Has Set Privacy Time Bomb Ticking

Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., asked the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday to formally investigate how online data brokers and marketers track consumers across their computing devices.

This latest development spinning out of the Edward Snowden affair suggests a privacy time bomb may be close to detonating.  

How Edward Snowden has set privacy time bomb ticking