Cybersecurity
10 Easy Encryption Tips for Warding Off Hackers, US Government—and Russia
But adopting concrete cybersecurity habits is more involved than ticking off a quick checklist.
Digital Government
HHS Wants You to Make Easy-to-Read Privacy Label for Fitness Trackers
The end goal is a customizable privacy-notice generator for tech companies.
Cybersecurity
Online Privacy Hit All-Time Low in 2016 But Don't Expect Better in 2017, Company Says
This year was “probably the worst year ever in online privacy," according to one company.
Digital Government
Advocacy Group to Tech Companies: Delete Your Records Before Trump Gets To Them
The Electronic Frontier Foundation took out a full-page ad in Wired's January 2017 issue.
Cybersecurity
DOJ defends new cyber snooping regulations
The Justice Department said changes to criminal rules will help catch pedophiles and cybercriminals, but privacy advocates say the rules are a dangerous expansion of government hacking powers.
Cybersecurity
A Website That Gives You Points as It Spies on You
Click, and a calm voice explains how easy it is to follow your cursor’s every move.
Modernization
Video: Simple Ways to Protect Your Privacy
Keep your emails and your texts to yourself.
Cybersecurity
Warner: No red or blue cybersecurity teams
One of the Senate's most tech-savvy members sees some common ground on cybersecurity in the post-election environment.
Cybersecurity
The Dark Web Isn’t All Dark
Despite its reputation for illegal activity, much of what goes on underneath the surface of the internet is legit.
Cybersecurity
The Future of Privacy Is Plausible Deniability
In a hackable world where neither NSA nor Sony Pictures nor John Podesta could safeguard their private communications, the surest way to keep data secure may be surrounding it with decoys.
Digital Government
How Facebook’s Ad Tool Fails to Protect Civil Rights
The company’s platform lets advertisers exclude people of certain races from seeing their content. That’s a serious problem when it comes to promotions such as housing, credit and jobs.
Digital Government
A Court Will Decide Whether Facebook Used You to Violate the Privacy of All Your Friends
Every time you tag friends in a Facebook photo, Facebook stores their image in its database.
Cybersecurity
OMB director announces new digital privacy office
The White House is creating a new digital privacy office and senior career position to oversee agency privacy and data collection programs.
Cybersecurity
Audit: Secret Service Info Systems Still Weak a Year After Chaffetz Leak
The audit cites outdated access controls and poor privacy protections.
Modernization
HHS explains intersection of cloud and HIPAA
The Department of Health and Human Services issued rules for how stewards of sensitive health data should approach cloud technology.
Modernization
Video: Keep Facebook Messages Private Using End-to-End Encryption
You can also set a timer for messages to expire.
Cybersecurity
Yahoo Responds to Email Scanning Program
Calls the report that it built a program to scan all its users' incoming email "misleading"
Ideas
Why DHS Didn’t Need Its Own Internet of Things Guidance
The department's internet of things framework is late to the game.
Cybersecurity
Report: Yahoo customized surveillance software for NSA
A Reuters report says Yahoo facilitated the federal surveillance of live, bulk email traffic.
Digital Government