Privacy means a great deal to me: I carefully guard what I make public about myself, and as a technologist, I am constantly on guard about the technology I use. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the personal impact PRISM and its sister projects in the U.S. and elsewhere will have on me, my family, my friends and society in general in the U.S. and abroad.
European-U.S. data protection agreement: Yet another attempt, yet another failure
The recent agreement between the US and the EU is the third attempt to secure the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, does not see the new regulatory attempt as a satisfactory solution.