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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift

Schneier on Security

And if you read his 3,000-word post carefully, Zuckerberg says nothing about changing Facebook's surveillance capitalism business model. This data is combined with other surveillance data the company buys, including health and financial data. Better use of Facebook data to prevent violence.

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NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

Krebs on Security

1, 2002 (with very few exceptions). Americans currently have very few rights to opt out of the personal and financial surveillance, data collection and sale that is pervasive in today’s tech-based economy. Atlas said they verified 5,000 addresses and phone numbers, and found the records pertain to people born before Jan.

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2020 Predictions: New Challenges for Data Privacy and the 5G Hackathon

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

A barrage of news about data breaches, government surveillance, and corporate misconduct has soured consumer sentiment on current data practices privacy regulators and authorities strive to protect consumer rights and shape the future of data protection. and consumers are expected to have full access to the technology by the end of next year.

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Is Apple’s Safari browser the last, best hope for web privacy?

Malwarebytes

So instead of being logged into the giant surveillance monster while you were using its websites, you were logged into the giant surveillance monster all the time, unless you remembered to log out of the browser, which of course you didn’t, because people just don’t think about logging in and out of their browser.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

2002 – 2006: Origins of the Tor Project After onion routing was patented, additional computer scientists joined the original development team in 2002 and created the biggest project for onion routing yet: The Onion Routing Project, now commonly known as the Tor Project. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.

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Jeff Moss on the Evolution of Hacking at SecTor 2021

ForAllSecure

In the dot.com era, 1994-2002, this was the time of the commercial internet, the rise of search engines, and internet browsers. In the Coming of Age era, 2005-2019, provided "free" long distance and "free" internet access, we're always online, but this gives rise to surveillance capitalism.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Wiz Cloud security 2020 Private Evervault Developer encryption 2019 Private Verkada Security surveillance 2019 Private Armis IoT network security 2015 Private Sumo Logic Threat intelligence 2014 Nasdaq: SUMO Okta Identity management 2013 Nasdaq: OKTA Barracuda Enterprise security 2006 Private. AllegisCyber Capital.