A proposed law meant to encourage companies to share information about cyberthreats with the U.S. government includes measures that could significantly limit what details, if any, the public can review about the program through federal and state public records laws.
The deadly attacks in Paris may soon reopen the debate over whether—and how—tech companies should let the government sidestep the data scrambling that shields everyday commerce and daily digital life alike.
The legislation brought forward by UK and US governments pursues an aggressive path toward entrenching surveillance powers at the cost of citizens’ privacy.
The battle between the advertising industry, mobile phone operators, publishers and privacy advocates has reached new heights, with Apple’s decision to allow ad-blocking extensions in its Safari browser sparking fears that the multi-billion dollar mobile ad industry could be about to take an expensive haircut.
The “digital assistant” is proliferating, able to combine intelligent natural language processing, voice-operated control over a smartphone’s functions and access to web services.
Two major pieces of legislation regarding online piracy and cybersecurity were rejected in 2012, and dynamic discussions on Internet privacy are expected to continue throughout 2013.
The U.N. has been pressuring the United States to hand over control of global telecommunications, but Washington is putting the brakes on that plan over concerns that member states including China and Russia, will gain too much control over cybersecurity.