Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) was given this prompt: Please summarize the themes and arguments of Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear. Then lay out the most salient criticisms of the book. Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

Run by a nonprofit and funded by donations, there are no ads, trackers, or data collection in Signal. Key features E2EE on messages, calls, and media Minimal data collection. Briar Briar is built for when traditional networks fail, or surveillance is everywhere.

Encryption 58

Encryption Data collection Backups Accountability 58

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

Run by a nonprofit and funded by donations, there are no ads, trackers, or data collection in Signal. Key features E2EE on messages, calls, and media Minimal data collection. Briar Briar is built for when traditional networks fail, or surveillance is everywhere.

Encryption 52

Encryption Data collection Backups Accountability 52

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Shoshana Zuboff lays out how and why control of online privacy has become a linchpin to the current state of wealth distribution in her 2019 New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

For decades, governments and companies have surveilled the conversations, movements, and behavior of the public. DAVID RUIZ : We know that mass surveillance has this “Collect it all” mentality—of the NSA, obviously, but also from companies that gather clicks and shares and locations and app downloads and all of that.

Surveillance 88

Surveillance Government Advertising Spyware 88

Malwarebytes

JUNE 17, 2025

With Meta’s “Pay or OK” system, users face a choice between two options nobody asked for: either pay a monthly subscription fee to avoid targeted ads and tracking, or accept extensive data collection and personalized advertising in exchange for free access. If you don’t want your data tracked, you must pay. What can users do?

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Data collection Identity Theft Accountability Advertising 92

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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Media Surveillance Government Technology 145