Ever since biometric authentication began rolling out across phones and laptops, security researchers and legal analysts have both warned that such security measures would not protect against federal searches. Until now, however, such issues had been largely theoretical. …
… Google has been found to be violating the privacy of its own users in so many various ways over the years, from Google Plus to Android, it strains credulity to see these issues as individual innocent mistakes. …
… What we don't talk about when we talk about user privacy There's a problem with user privacy, data collection, and how that data gets crunched up and sold to various corporations that Tim Cook doesn't appear to have touched on. …
… It's hard to ask people to take privacy or security seriously when they've been trained not to. Companies are allowed to grant themselves egregious permissions behind 20,000-word EULAs of dense legalese. …
… He has solid credentials on most privacy issues, though he has joined Clinton in condemning Snowden. …
… Homomorphic encryption would resolve many of these issues. …