Many smartphone users around the world have reported something mysterious with their phones. Seemingly innocuous advertisements related to personal conversations are cropping up. While at the surface, this might seem innocent, it’s actually at the heart of a really big issue. Digital privacy and the potential for your phone to be recording your private conversations, ... Read more The post Is My Phone Listening to Me? appeared first on Recording Law.| Recording Law
Attacks on encryption continue. The UK government has just reportedly handed Apple a Technical Capability Notice – effectively demanding that Apple allow UK law enforcement access to their users’ encrypted cloud servers. This is the latest in a series of recent pushes by the UK Government and security services to establish backdoors in the end-to-end encrypted services which underpin a great deal of our lives. It is also happening at a time when many of us are really quite scared of the t...| Light Blue Touchpaper
I am at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium in Minnesota. As it is customary the conversations with other privacy researchers and developers are extremely engaging. One topic I discussed over beer with Mike Perry and Natalie Eskinazi is whether secure group messaging protocols could be simplified by relaxing some of their security and systems assumptions. In […]| Conspicuous Chatter
(This is an extract from my contribution to Harper, Richard. “Introduction and Overview”, Trust, Computing, and Society. Ed. Richard H. R. Harper. 1st ed. New York: Cambridge University…| Conspicuous Chatter