House of Cards
Packets is packets, right? Wrong. With the demise of the Net Neutrality standards, Internet providers are free to “prioritize” certain kinds of packets over others. Now this is nothing new. …
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On Facebook’s 10th Anniversary, many people posted short videos taken from their “life” on Facebook. These included pictures, likes, favorites, etc. from their tenure as Facebook products – um, customers. …
State of the [Cyber] Union
On a bitter cold January day, the President of the United States appeared before a joint session of Congress to fulfill his Constitutional obligation to “from time to time give…
How the NSA Revelations Can Be Good for US Cloud Providers
Conventional wisdom is that the revelations about the NSA domestic and international surveillance programs are bad news for US security, privacy, cloud and other companies. The revelations include assertions (probably…
Nest, Google and the Third Party Doctrine
With Google’s acquisition of technology company Nest, not only has Big Data met the Internet of Things, we have allowed the camel’s nose into the tent of privacy. The Supreme…
Good Words, Small Change — Obama on NSA Surveillance
On January 17, 2014 President Obama came to the “Great Room” at the U.S. Department of Justice (for the first time) to announce his reforms to the NSA’s data collection…
Schrodinger’s Catnip Revisited – Part I – The Lawful NSA Metadata Program
In 1935, Austrian physicist Edwin Schrodinger posited a thought experiment illustrating the duality of quantum entanglement. In his thought experiment, illustrating nuclear decay, a cat placed in a box would be…
Further Reflections on the NSA Bulk Data Collection
I have already written about how a federal judge in New York ruled that the NSA’s collection of the telephone toll records on every call made is constitutional because, the…
A Vote in Favor of Making it Tough for Cops to Do Their Jobs
Earlier in this space I wrote about the fact that, despite reports to the contrary, possession of marijuana is NOT legal in Colorado – it is still a federal crime.…
Once More Into the (Data) Breach – House GOP Proposes Obamacare Breach Bill
As if we don’t have enough to worry about, Nextgov.com has reported that the first order of business for House Republicans is to introduce legislation mandating that the HHS CMS…