Privacy
Half of American Adults on FBIs Biometric Database
Here’s a bit of a shock for you: about half of all adult Americans have a photograph stored in the FBI facial recognition database. What’s even more shocking, it is that these photos are being stored without the consent of the individuals. Approximately 80 percent of the photos the FBI has are of non-criminals, and […]
Never reveal your social media passwords to Trump Administration
As the new US Visa policies roll in from this month, the Trump Administration is planning to put some foreign applicants through a stringent screening test which can be referred as a ‘privacy invasion’. And as a part of this policy, the US State Department wants to review all social media activities, email addresses and […]
IoT: Usability Dream or Privacy Nightmare?
Javvad Malik wrote an interesting post about IoT: Usability Dream or Privacy Nightmare? that I would like to share. “Probably the best £100 I’ve ever spent was on a Nest Protect. It’s awesome. In a nutshell, it’s a Wi-Fi enabled smoke and carbon dioxide detector. My “dumb” one worked just as well but this one has […]
