Articles about Privacy – Page 6 of 8

ACLU technologist: ‘Amazon has escaped the transparency spotlight’

It’s time for Amazon.com to become more transparent about surveillance requests by the U.S. government. That was message from Chris… Read More

Why you shouldn’t try to host your own email

Last week, Google traffic spiked to my tutorial, How to Install Your own Private Email Server, and I wasn’t sure… Read More

Microsoft says its cloud services are first to adopt new privacy standard

Microsoft announced today that its cloud services are compliant with a new international standard for privacy. Called ISO 27018 (it just… Read More

Google’s advisory committee: Limit ‘right to be forgotten’ to Europe

An advisory committee appointed by Google has published its recommendation: the “right to be forgotten” — or have links about… Read More

EU regulators: ‘Right to be forgotten’ in search results should be global

The European Union’s “right to be forgotten” may be going global, if a set of regulators have their way. A… Read More

City of Seattle launches digital privacy initiative aimed at transparency, utilizing new technology

The City of Seattle wants to do a better job of showing the public how it collects information, and today it… Read More

Seattle Public Library expresses ‘concern and alarm’ over Adobe’s data tracking policies

An Adobe data breach with its newest digital reading software has the Seattle Public Library concerned. The Digital Reader first… Read More

Commentary: Welcoming the drones

I started flying in small planes in high school. I can vividly remember my first flight in a little Cessna.… Read More

App of the Week: AVGPrivacyFix manages your privacy across social networks

How exposed are you online? Now that having multiple social media accounts is commonplace and with privacy settings constantly changing,… Read More

Microsoft lobbies vacationing D.C. decision-makers with full-page ads in Martha’s Vineyard and Outer Banks newspapers

It’s the build-up to the long Labor Day weekend, so how can someone reach key decision-makers from Washington, D.C.? Take out… Read More

Sen. Wyden: Congress needs to reform old privacy laws to ‘reflect public expectation’

Whether it’s a Facebook message you send or important information stored in a Google Doc, Ron Wyden thinks Americans deserve more individual privacy… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Brain-computer interfaces and the future of personal privacy

The past couple of years have brought a series of revelations about the lack of privacy online — all the… Read More

3 ways Glenn Greenwald changed how I look at privacy

Glenn Greenwald doesn’t mince words. The government is “truly devoted to the elimination of privacy in the digital age,” the… Read More

Microsoft successfully blocked FBI from enterprise customer data request last year

In an effort to demonstrate its policy toward government requests for data, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith today detailed a now-public… Read More

Privacy issues cause Seattle police to delay body-worn camera program

The Seattle Police Department has delayed a pilot program that would have allowed police officers to wear cameras that can record video and… Read More

What Snapchat teaches us about the way teens define privacy

When it comes to the generational differences between today’s youth and their parents or grandparents, there are the obvious ones:… Read More

How Microsoft’s top lawyer would keep the NSA in check

In light of last year’s NSA revelations and more recently the Heartbleed security breach, how government balances the protection of… Read More

Microsoft says it won’t search customer emails in leak cases

Following uproar over its handling of a recent intellectual property leak, Microsoft announced today that it will stop searching through… Read More

Facebook cracks down on HasOffers, boots startup from mobile measurement program

HasOffers, the fast-growing Seattle startup that helps companies manage affiliate advertising programs, has been removed from Facebook’s mobile measurement program after… Read More

Watch what you share! How Microsoft is shocking Internet users to make them safer

As a part of Safer Internet Day, Microsoft took to the streets to tell people about just how much they… Read More

Microsoft privacy chief: Tech industry needs to evolve beyond those privacy policies that no one reads

Internet users want to know more about the types of data being collected about them, how that data is being… Read More

Online privacy regulation on the legislative docket: What’s the proper role for government?

The Washington state legislature will convene next Monday for its annual session. The legislature will not pass a big operating… Read More

Are you freaked out yet? Tech execs debate business opportunities in privacy

Listening to the speakers at this year’s Privacy Identity Innovation conference — experts with years of experience on the front… Read More

How Edward Snowden’s former email provider keeps conversations private now

One of the people directly impacted by the Edward Snowden controversy warned an audience in Seattle about the lasting impact… Read More

Privacy is suddenly very hot: Events see influx of interest after NSA revelations

This is the fourth year of the Privacy Identity Innovation conference, which will draw hundreds of people to Seattle’s Bell Harbor… Read More

Pay for parking with your phone: Here’s how your personal data will be used

Parking in Seattle became a little more convenient earlier this month with the debut of PayByPhone, a smartphone app that allows people… Read More

Persona wants to help you get hired by protecting your social media reputation 24/7

To learn more about you, employers today are reviewing the social media accounts of both prospective and current employees. Unfortunately for… Read More

Google is now delivering ads that appear as emails to your Gmail inbox

If Microsoft thought Google was “Scroogling” people with the way the search giant uses the contents of Gmail messages to deliver… Read More

Report: Microsoft allowed NSA to bypass encryption for access to Outlook emails, Skype conversations

Throughout the year, Microsoft has lambasted Google and accused them of shady privacy policies via its “Scroogled” campaign. But now, new… Read More

First porn app for Google Glass relaunches, stripped of explicit content

“Tits & Glass” is back … kind of. Earlier this month, Seattle-based adult app marketplace Mikandi got lots of attention for releasing the… Read More