"Police officers and employees misusing access to police database now account for over half of all cybercrime prosecutions in the UK. The harms this can cause are considerable. Yet police continue to call for encryption to be weakened to allow for greater access to communication data." - Alice Hutchings, Director, Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, Cambridge University. (3pp PDF: 📄.pdf)
An 11-year-old girl took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities and have her family deported from the U.S, her grieving parents have said.
Trump has free rein over Dutch government data. "The Netherlands relies heavily on American IT service providers such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon for the storage of government data." - I bet the UK does, too. And many others.
"We do not "use" the computer — we negotiate with it to try and make it do the things we want it to do, because the incentives behind modern software development no longer align with the user."
I had a nice natter with @npub1my7c...c5nd of @npub12wy5...lm9d about how web platform features get into browsers, who pays and how we can fund the implementation of standards so the web continues to evolve. Have a listen, or read the transcript
'the free apps you install and use collect your precise location with timestamp and send it to some 3rd-party companies'.
What could possibly go wrong while ICE agents are hunting people?
