An anonymised mobile phone usage data package came with a nice bit of info: your location down to ~100 metres.
The data was all anonymised, aggregated- just dont think too much about the 100m part.
May 142013
Apr 092013
Via m.ibtimes.co.uk/classification-cyber-weapons-marks-beginning-arms-race-455143.html
More cash for cyber defences, more staff and a grand vision of space-based assets…
Feb 192013
Via: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence
Tracking users…. via a ”proof of concept” product that was not sold to any clients?
Private sector and public sector getting around ‘walled gardens’ find what? Security risks?
Like protesters in front of an East German church – what are the options?
The optics of mass arrests? Or yet more expensive undercover work.
Dec 162012
Interesting comments about session rates per device and the move from sort and save to save and find.
Dec 162012
Via: www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/tweeters-could-be-military-targets-20121213-2bcjq.html
Could using social media or blog comments about any military operation make you a legal military target?
The Geneva Convention protecting civilians could be removed if a power feels uploading, downloading or sharing is part of the fight. How long before “knowingly providing material support or resources to an entity that has been designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act.” becomes just “providing material support or resources to an entity that has been designated”"
Nov 122012
An interesting read on the possible value of a privacy policy in the EU.
Oct 252012
Via: www.zdnet.com/australian-police-want-telco-customer-data-retained-forever-7000004811/
2 years? 5 years? – try forever. Dont worry its not the content, just ip’s…
Sep 152012
Via: www.businessinsider.com/unbelievable-obama-administration-has-already-appealed-ndaa-ruling-2012-9
No US citizens are going to escape the option of indefinite detention thanks to some court.
Sep 042012
Via: www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/09/the-assange-case/
A long list of whistleblowers, the honey traps and other methods used on them.
Aug 302012
www.computerworld.com.au/article/434911/data_retention_could_cost_over_500m_comms_alliance_amta/
Expensive
delimiter.com.au/2012/08/29/insufficient-evidence-telcos-pan-surveillance-reforms/
Do we need it?
www.itnews.com.au/News/313178,public-opposes-federal-data-retention-proposal.aspx
Not happy about it
www.computerworld.com.au/article/434909/proposed_data_retention_laws_likened_police_state_bendall_/
Fun for friends of friends of friends and the one legal note to watch them all?
If everybody knows they are been watched on Web 2.0, they will move to other forms of communications.
All the logs become junk.