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Three billion was a Snap

June 2, 2014 The latest Snowden revelations include the NSA’s special programs for extracting photos...

Digital Sheep and Digital Goats

My Constellation Research colleague Alan Lepofsky as been working on new ways to characterise users...

Security Heartache

For the second time in as many months, a grave bug has emerged in core...

Big Privacy: a new Constellation Research Report

I’ve just completed a major new Constellation Research report looking at how today’s privacy practices...

Calling for a uniform approach to card fraud, offline and on

This blog is an edited extract from an article of the same name, first published...

Who’s listening to Ed Snowden?

In one of the most highly anticipated sessions ever at the annual South-by-Southwest (SXSW) culture...

The strengths and weaknesses of Data Privacy in the Age of Big Data

This is the abstract of a current privacy conference proposal. Synopsis Many Big Data and...

FIDO Alliance goes from strength to strength

With a bunch of exciting new members joining up on the eve of the RSA...

gotofail and a defence of purists

‘The widely publicised and very serious “gotofail” bug in iOS7 took me back … Early...

How are we to defend anonymity?

If anonymity is important, what is the legal basis for defending it? I find that...