De weekendbijlage van onze website waarin we de meest markante berichten van de afgelopen week (of weken) nog eens op een rijtje zetten. Enjoy!
Must reads
- Jérémie Zimmermann: Instrumentalizing Fear to Control Encrypted Communications is Dangerously Anti-Democratic (via La Quadrature du Net)
- EFF: Transparency Is No Substitute For Free Speech
- The New Yorker: We Know How You Feel. Computers are learning to read emotion, and the business world can’t wait.
- Rick Falkvinge: The War Over Control Of The Net Is A War Over Information Advantage (via TorrentFreak)
PNR
- Access: Parliament votes to push forward its agenda on EU-PNR
- The Register: Euro ministers trade data for data protection – yes, your passenger records
- CIO: EU air passenger surveillance system could be ready for take-off by year end
Equation Group
- via Kaspersky: Equation: The Death Star of Malware Galaxy
- Via Ars Technica: How “omnipotent” hackers tied to NSA hid for 14 years—and were found at last
- via Wired: Suite of Sophisticated Nation-State Attack Tools Found With Connection to Stuxnet
- via Motherboard: The Only Way You Can Delete This NSA Malware Is to Smash Your Hard Drive to Bits
Internet of Things
- Ian Steadman: Before we give doors and toasters sentience, we should decide what we’re comfortable with first (via New Statesman) – “Combine these trends to understand why the Internet of Things should worry all of us: it means a world where everything we do is tracked by everything we touch; where opting out is near-impossible; where the databases holding that tracking data are often vulnerable to hackers, thieves and governments; and where mundane objects like doors and cars can rebel against us if we break the terms and conditions laid down in a contract we will have had no choice but to accept.”
- Hamza Shaban: Will the internet of things finally kill privacy? (via The Verge)
- Wem gehören die Daten im Auto? – via Mobile Geeks
Dataretentierichtlijn
- Bits of Freedom: Massale oproep aan providers: stop met de bewaarplicht
- Digitale Gesellschaft: Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa
Netneutraliteit
- EFF: The FCC’s Latest Net Neutrality Proposal: Pros, Cons, and Question Marks
- Ars Technica: Big Telecom tried to kill net neutrality before it was even a concept
En verder:
- Glyn Moody: Why We Should Rename TAFTA/TTIP As The ‘Atlantic Car Trade Agreement’ (via Techdirt)
- The Great Bank Robbery: Hackers plegen grootste bankroof ooit (via De Tijd)
- Visa gebruikt locatie smartphone tegen creditcardfraude (security.nl)
- EDPS hopes to become ‘centre of gravity for data protection’
- Europese defensiebedrijven op zoek naar klanten in Abu Dhabi (mo.be over de IDEX-wapenbeurs)
