The greatest danger to national security has become the companies that claim to protect it

The Insecurity Industry Edward Snowden Jul 26, 2021 1. The first thing I do when I get a new phone is take it apart. I don’t do this to satisfy a tinkerer’s urge, or out of political principle, but simply because it is unsafe to operate. Fixing the hardware, which is to say surgically removing the two

A Disturbing Social Experiment: How Much Personal Information Are You Giving Away?

TOPICS:DP Friesen Privacy JUNE 21, 2021 How much personal information are you innocently giving out about yourself to complete strangers? Organic Prepper Editor’s Note:  This is a topic I’ve written about before here and here. And it’s more important than ever with the toxic cancel culture that exists in America today, in which many people can justify nearly any action – looting, rioting, assault,

Why We Should End the Data Economy

The data economy depends on violating our right to privacy on a massive scale, collecting as much personal data as possible for profit. Carlo GiambarresiData By Carissa Véliz Carissa Véliz is an associate professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Privacy Is Power, an Economist