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• Secure your mails

  Ever read a post card that wasn’t meant for you? Without encryption, emails you send and receive are as easy to read as post cards. They could barely have less security, as they are transmitted in plain text. This means... more…

• Tracking people using computer vision

  “The key for Cara is that they’re doing face detection, not recognition,” says Natalie Fronseca, co-founder and executive producer for the Privacy Identity Innovation tech conference, who is very familiar with Cara. “Jason does privacy by design, and that will... more…

• On tracking yourself

  “In the American context, when you use self-quantifying stuff to improve your health you are also sending this information to data aggregators and someone might one day deny you insurance because of it.” “Even if you are quantifying your own... more…

• On easily snapping someone else's pictures

  While I occasionally spend a few hours standing on my front stoop scantily clad and in a suggestive pose hoping to gain a little notoriety on Google Maps Street View, I still expect a certain amount of privacy when my... more…