Schneier on Security

MARCH 29, 2018

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff calls it " surveillance capitalism." Equifax is one of those thousands of data brokers, most of them you've never heard of, selling your personal information without your knowledge or consent to pretty much anyone who will pay for it. Surveillance capitalism takes this one step further.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 1, 2024

Those “tangible things,” the law said, included “books, records, papers, documents, and other items.” What’s changed, however, is that companies that libraries have relied on for published materials and collections—Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, Lexis Nexis—have reimagined themselves as big data companies.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Here are some air travel tips from The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data by Kevin Mitnick and Robert Vamosi. Sometimes you can use surveillance tools in your favor. It’s available on Amazon or wherever you get your books.

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 10, 2025

A DHS Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) available online says that TIP data is updated daily with the previous day’s ticket sales, and contains more than one billion records spanning 39 months of past and future travel. The PIA notes that the data impacts both US and non-US persons, meaning it does include information on US citizens.

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