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Huawei: The Backdoor Papers

February 14, 2020 by Marc Handelman in Corporate Espionage, Information Security, National Security

via Jon Brodkin - writing at Ars Technica - and detailing the latest salvo (chatted up in a Wall Street journal piece) in the United States Government versus Huawei Tug of Networks. We'are calling it The Backdoor Papers. Stay Tuned.

February 14, 2020 /Marc Handelman
Corporate Espionage, Information Security, National Security
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Corporate Twisting Of Privacy Laws →

January 08, 2020 by Marc Handelman in Corruption, Corporate Espionage, Corporate Corruption, Death of Privacy, Must Grok

Quite likely, the single most important Privacy related paper you should examine. Today's Must Grok.

January 08, 2020 /Marc Handelman
Corruption, Corporate Espionage, Corporate Corruption, Death of Privacy, Must Grok

The Deep Disingenuousness of the Leviathan of Redmond

December 18, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Disingenuous Business, Facial Recognition, Information Security, Privacy, Death of Privacy, Corporate Evil, Corporate Espionage

via Nathaniel Mott, writing at Tom's Hardware comes the truth regarding Microsoft Corporation's (Nasdaq: MSFT) call to 'regulate' Facial Recognition systems.

December 18, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Disingenuous Business, Facial Recognition, Information Security, Privacy, Death of Privacy, Corporate Evil, Corporate Espionage

The Tracking of America: Why Are You Letting It Happen?

December 11, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Information Security, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Espionage, Corporate Corruption

Why are both Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) still permitting clearly ill-conceived user tracking via applications marketed and sold on each company's customer-facing app stores? Surely your privacy and freedom means more to you than the false-and-temporary-convenience of finger, voice and script actuated conveyances of information best retreived in another manner.

December 11, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Information Security, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Espionage, Corporate Corruption

Google's New Advanced Persistent Threat: Convenience Services →

May 13, 2018 by Marc Handelman in Corporate Evil, Corporate Espionage, Information Security

Examine - if you will - Nitasha Tiku's superlative piece on Google Convenience Services. I am astonished that in light of the Facebook SNAFU's of late, Sundar Pichai has intemperately determined that it's a great time to push Google Surveillance to consumers... Enjoy!

'All this free personalization comes at a price: these services count on users handing over even more data about themselves and their lives, and on Google mining that data, giving the search giant more influence and control over our daily choices.' - Nitasha Tiku, writing at Wired

May 13, 2018 /Marc Handelman
Corporate Evil, Corporate Espionage, Information Security