Between the story of Apple's admission that humans are listening to Siri queries and Amazon's collusion with local police departments in providing extrajudicial surveillance capabilities in exchange for government-run marketing campaigns...it's never been more apparent: putting an always-on recording device in your home is a bad idea.

It's Time to Get Angry About Facebook

It's been a very busy couple of months, and I haven't really been able to weigh in on the seemingly daily deluge of privacy scandals swirling around Facebook lately. You'd have to be living under a really, really heavy rock not to have heard about any of this, and you'd have to have rocks inside your head not to wonder why so very little is actually being done.

Why aren't we more mad? Probably because the effects of privacy breaches ...

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Sorry about the recent downtime--just routine maintenance that became complicated unexpectedly. We're back up and running.

We have received a few acquisition offers lately. LinkLocker is not for sale, and it never will be.

FCC Considers Giving Telcos Even More 911 Location Data (To Sell)

Cynical former Verizon employee and FCC chairman Ajit Pai is proposing more detailed location data to be sent with 911 calls, and--brace yourself for a shocker--the proposal includes zero mentions of user privacy. The so-called "Z-axis" data that would be added to 911 calls would transmit vertical location to emergency services, potentially helping them know, for example, what floor of a building a caller is on.

Given the fact that U.S. cellular providers have recently been under (an insufficient amount of) scrutiny for selling ...

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