Passenger lists are quite rightly kept confidential, as you will know if you’ve ever tried to find out if the friends you’ve come to pick up at the airport made it onto their flight. Seems that no-one told Delta Airlines…
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Uber: We accessed reporter’s private trip info because she was late
Responding to Senator Al Franken’s questions about its privacy policies, Uber says it accessed a reporter’s account because “she was 30 minutes late” to a meeting and an executive wanted to know when she’d show up so he could meet her in the lobby.
Microsoft deluged with support in its email privacy battle against US government
75 amicus briefs show the industry’s fierce belief that the US is overreaching in its demands to get email off an Irish server.
IsoHunt raises a sunken Pirate Bay
Less than a week after the site was taken down, IsoHunt says it has copied the database of the The Pirate Bay “in order to save it to the generations of users”.
12 Days competition: Day 12 – A tale of two passwords
It’s Day 12 of our 12 Days of Christmas competition. Can you work out the answer to our final question? THIS FOR THE LAST 5 T-SHIRTS!
Schmidt: Want to keep your sensitive data away from the NSA? Use Google
NSA spying revelations shocked Google, so it encrypted the beejezus out of everything. We’ll all be dead by the time it’s cracked, Schmidt said.
5 minute fix – How to use a password manager
This 5 minute fix will show you how to choose and use a password manager.
How have attitudes to privacy changed post-Snowden?
A recent survey reports 43% of users avoid certain websites and applications and 39% change their passwords regularly since the Snowden revelations. Is that number low, or is it an encouraging sign of growing sensitivity to privacy issues?
Sony Pictures calls on media to stop publishing its “stolen information”
Sony Pictures Entertainment has warned the media not to publish the details of anything that was stolen in last month’s hack by a group calling itself Guardians of Peace (GOP).
US Congress OKs ‘unprecedented’ codification of warrantless surveillance
The US Congress has quietly passed a bill that includes warrantless forfeiture of private communications to local law enforcement and allows for indefinite retention of any encrypted content. 