Loss of Privacy

Senator Franken speaks about the importance in stopping the corporate takeover of the media.

Read my entire article over at The Daily Censored.

Two months ago, REAL-ID went into effect in Florida and many residents are having problems proving their identities to obtain the new driver’s licenses. Florida is one of the few states complying with the law as many states have said that REAL-ID is too expensive to implement and the federal government has extended the deadline several times.

Read the rest of my latest article at The Daily Censored.

Cyber attacks are on the rise and everyone who connects to the internet needs to educate themselves in possible attacks and be diligent in keeping them at bay. The International Telcommunications Union, a UN agency, believes that the only way to do this is to require a type of driver’s license for anyone who wishes to connect to the internet.

ITU Secretary General, Hamadoun Toure, believes that countries should engage themselves in signing treaties, promising not to attack each other in cyberspace. The problem, however, is that such a treaty would only affect countries. Individuals, organized crime, and malicious hackers would not be part of any treaty. While it appears that China played a part in the recent attacks on google, rogue individuals and groups will continue to ply their trade, mostly undetected by the UN officials hired to police the Internet.

Read the rest of my article at The Daily Censored.

Medical breaches often get a mention in a local or state paper, but rarely do they make national headlines.  Over the past two months, there have been numerous breaches, barely getting a mention, but, when taken as a whole, reveal just how at risk our personal information really is.

Read the rest of my lengthy article at The Daily Censored.

I’ve been meaning to make a post for the last few weeks about The Daily Censored.  I’ve been writing for them for a while now and I’ll continue to do so as long as they’ll have me.  I’m trying to make a point to write at least once a week for them.

Most of the stories there will continue to focus on privacy issues, so for those of you reading here for the past three years, you can expect more of the same from my posts there.  I have started a new category, called The Daily Censored, to let all the readers of Loss of Privacy know when I’ve made a new post so you can have over there and check it out.

You can visit their entire site here and my posts here.