Why Personal Privacy Matters to Corporations

Nobody finishes annual security training feeling motivated. But people will work to protect themselves — and the habits that do it happen to harden the employer too. An argument for pointing training at the person, not the org chart.

Digital Privacy - It matters

Free services are not free; the price is quoted in data you never see itemized. What ubiquitous technical surveillance actually collects on an ordinary day, and where you still hold leverage over it.

Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance

UTS is not a tool someone points at you. It is the ambient condition of a sensor-saturated life — the badge reader, the car, the watch on your wrist — and the only real lever is what you emit from day 0.

Faraday Bags

A bag that genuinely works turns your phone into a brick until you take it out. That is the whole feature, and it is also the whole complaint. Which bags and key fob boxes earn their price, and when the trade is worth making.

SparkPress - Privacy and Security News

A snapshot of what privacy news looked like in October 2023, back when passkeys were still a novelty and the first White House order on AI had just landed. Short, dated, and left exactly as it was published.

Two-Factor Authentication Devices for 2023

A 2023 snapshot of the hardware key market, when the decision came down to price, durability, and whether you could read the firmware. The specific models have aged; the reasoning for picking one has not.

Is Your App Safe? A Simple Guide to Assessing Vulnerabilities

A friend forwards a headline about an app getting hacked and you have no idea whether it touches you. Four terms and a short set of questions that turn a scary-sounding score into a decision about your own phone.

Identity Unmasked: The Double-Edged Sword of Biometrics

A password can be changed after a breach. A fingerprint, an iris, a palm vein pattern cannot. That asymmetry is what makes biometrics the most convenient login you will ever use and the most permanent thing you can hand over.

The Ultimate Anti-Tracking Guide for 2023 by Ghostery

Ghostery wrote a tracking primer worth the read; this is the condensed version. Most useful for the line it draws between tracking that makes a site work and tracking that follows you off it.

Digital Privacy Laws in the United States: A Comprehensive Overview with Crosswalks

The US never wrote a GDPR. It wrote one law for children, one for banks, one for wiretaps, and one for terrorism — decades apart, each patching the last. A crosswalk of what the statutes cover and what falls between them.