Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yes, spyware companies like NSO Group help the government hack into people’s phones , but someone still has to sort through all the conversations. And governments like China could censor social media posts based on particular words or phrases, but that was coarse and easy to bypass. We could pass strong data-privacy rules.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yes, spyware companies like NSO Group help the government hack into people’s phones , but someone still has to sort through all the conversations. And governments like China could censor social media posts based on particular words or phrases, but that was coarse and easy to bypass. We could pass strong data-privacy rules.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

For decades, governments and companies have surveilled the conversations, movements, and behavior of the public. That’s a lot of data that, until now, has been difficult to parse at scale. Or by democratic governments. Now, in the West, we tend not to have governments do this on their own citizens—they rely on corporations.

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