Skip to content

Bryan's Blog

  • Home
  • Useful Links
  • Contact

The True Crime-Obsessed Philanthropists Paying to Catch Killers

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/technology/dna-tests-crime-solving.html

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-04-052022-03-29 1 Minute

Does Social Media Make Teens Unhappy? It May Depend on Their Age.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/28/science/social-media-teens-mental-health.html

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-04-052022-03-29 1 Minute

I Want You Back: Getting My Personal Data From Amazon Was Weeks of Confusion and Tedium

https://theintercept.com/2022/03/27/amazon-personal-data-request-dark-pattern/

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-04-042022-03-29 1 Minute

One Week of LineageOS

https://blog.thenewoil.org/one-week-of-lineageos

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-04-042022-03-29 1 Minute

WA gun owners demand apology for police map showing their locations

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/wa-gun-owners-demand-apology-for-police-map-showing-their-locations-20220324-p5a7r0.html

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-04-032022-03-29 1 Minute

High Court rules against Home Office over data being extracted from migrants’ mobile phones

https://news.sky.com/story/high-court-rules-against-priti-patel-over-data-being-extracted-from-migrants-mobile-phones-12574892

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-04-032022-03-29 1 Minute

Another Tracker Scanning App Highlights the Need for a Better Way to Protect Victims From Digital Stalking

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/another-tracker-scanning-app-highlights-need-better-way-protect-victims-digital

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-04-022022-03-29 1 Minute

Legislation seeks to block lengthy gag orders on tech firms after government surveillance

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/599231-legislation-seeks-to-block-lengthy-gag-orders-following-government

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-04-022022-03-29 1 Minute

Convince others to switch

One of the biggest hurdles when trying to use privacy respecting products is that none of your friends may be using them. Many people struggle to get their friends to make the switch to private communications. While I believe you should make a switch to something more private like signal even if none of your … Continue reading Convince others to switch →

Bryan Phelps OC 2022-04-012022-03-29 1 Minute

The Kids Online Safety Act Is a Heavy-Handed Plan to Force Platforms to Spy on Young People

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/kids-online-safety-act-heavy-handed-plan-force-platforms-spy-young-people

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-03-312022-03-28 1 Minute

New EU law could require iMessage and WhatsApp to work with other, smaller platforms

https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/24/22995431/european-union-digital-markets-act-imessage-whatsapp-interoperable

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-03-312022-03-28 1 Minute

Leaked opinion of the Commission sets off alarm bells for mass surveillance of private communications

https://edri.org/our-work/leaked-opinion-of-the-commission-sets-off-alarm-bells-for-mass-surveillance-of-private-communications/

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-03-302022-03-28 1 Minute

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: ‘Of all Big Tech, Facebook is No. 1 that I don’t like’

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/why-apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-deactivated-his-facebook-account.html

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-03-302022-03-28 1 Minute

Today Google is turning on activity tracking for many users that previously turned it off.

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/google-turns-on-activity-tracking-even-if-turned-off/

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-03-292022-03-29 1 Minute

Google routinely hides emails from litigation by CCing attorneys, DOJ alleges

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/google-routinely-hides-emails-from-litigation-by-ccing-attorneys-doj-alleges/

Bryan Phelps Link 2022-03-292022-03-28 1 Minute

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Categories

Tags

Amazon Android Apple Artificial Intelligence breach California China EFF encryption European Union Facebook facial recognition Google howto iPhone location tracking Microsoft news privacy security Surveillance tracking United Kingdom USA vulnerability
  • RSS - Posts
  • Contact
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Bryan's Blog
    • Join 269 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Bryan's Blog
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar

Loading Comments...

    Design a site like this with WordPress.com
    Get started