This evening, the acting chair of the FTC and the newly appointed chair of the FCC jointly published an op-ed piece in the Washington…
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General
How (Not) To Sell to Technologists
It’s the first quarter of the year, so it must be time to get a whole bevy of emails from company salespeople that all…
Information Security
Pragmatically (Apple) News-ical
Just a quick post to let you all know that I have extended Pragmatically Cynical into Apple News so that you can view posts,…
Privacy
Be Careful What You Browse From Home (It’s About To Be Up For Sale)
There has long been advised that using things like Incognito Mode and clearing your cookies and opting out of advertising preferences will help keep your…
Information Security
HTTPS Everywhere (Really) Starts Today!
Today is the day. It has been talked about for a while, but I think that today is the day that it really starts…
Information Security
Off to Atlanta – ALA Midwinter 2017
I getting on the plane today from Detroit heading to a talk I am excited to give tomorrow (Saturday) morning on Security & Privacy in…
Uncategorised
Today, I wrote a letter…
Yes, an actual handwritten letter, with paper and ink. And it was wonderful. I normally use pen and paper to edit and markup documents,…
Information
Come See Me Speak at ALAAC16
For those of you that might be attending, I will be speaking at the ALA Annual Conference at the NISO/BISG 10th Annual Forums: The Changing…
General
When is “Opt-In” More Like “Opt-Out”?
I talk a lot about “opt-in” because I believe that consumers (and users of any service or system) deserve to make an explicit choice…
Privacy
CrashPlan has a Privacy Crash & Burn
(Or, why do we accept a world without opt-out?) Earlier this week, I got an email update from CrashPlan notifying me about updates to…