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James Comey on Apple and Google’s Data Encryption: They ‘Drove Me Crazy’ By Don Reisinger, fortune.com

Former FBI Director James Comey isn’t only talking about President Donald Trump in his new memoir, A Higher Loyalty.

In a discussion on encryption and data security, Comey said that Apple and Google’s …

That's just the predatory tech fronted amateur time crypto. It's much more sophisticated. Amateur should have gotten a kid to hack Apple or the guy doing it for 13 years and there is the Nightshift Apple decryption box. Plug and play...

Decentralized Exchange Startup 0x Raised $775K in SAFT Sale Last Year - CoinDesk Apr 12, 2018 at 10:00 | Nikhilesh De, coindesk.com

Correction (16th April 5 p.m. EST): An earlier version of this article inaccurately reported that the $775k was drawn from a recently conducted SAFT sale. According to 0x, the funds were sourced from …

Tech enters a new era, the crypto everything era. Everthing gets encrypted and goes off grid.

Sell the News? Verge Token Drops After Porn Partner Reveal - CoinDesk Apr 17, 2018 at 14:30 | Stan Higgins, coindesk.com

Verge's XVG token is witnessing a classic "sell the news" trade.

The privacy-focused token ran into offers after the news hit the wires at 10:00 EST that Pornhub, the biggest website in the porn …

Age of crypto the game has changed.

Support Forming? Why $7.9K Is Bitcoin's New Price to Watch - CoinDesk Apr 17, 2018 at 15:30 | Omkar Godbole, coindesk.com

Bitcoin remains in a bullish territory for now and is looking at further gains, though a pullback is possible if support at $7,900 is breached, according to technical studies.

The cryptocurrency's …

The age of crypto everything.

Industry Group to Bring 'Order' to Korea's Crypto Exchanges - CoinDesk Apr 17, 2018 at 11:25 | Wolfie Zhao, coindesk.com

Update (08:25, April 17): This article has been amended to include comment from two domestic exchanges.

A South Korean blockchain industry organization has proposed a self-regulatory framework to set …

JWO lost control of tech right after Snowden. It's a whole new world.

Cryptocurrency Exchange Kraken to Shutter Services in Japan - CoinDesk Apr 17, 2018 at 17:09 | Nikhilesh De, coindesk.com

San Fransisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has announced it is shutting its doors for investors in Japan.

According to a statement released on Tuesday, the company said it will cease to …

Tech has now moved from information and social media era, too crypto everything.

Prosecutors: Options Seller Duped Investors With Worthless Crypto - CoinDesk Apr 17, 2018 at 12:00 | Jon Brose, coindesk.com

Federal prosecutors say a New York resident misled investors about a worthless cryptocurrency as part of a wider investment fraud scheme.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New …

It's the wild wild West of encryption now.

George Nott, cio.com.au

Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth has labelled the Australian Government’s proposed legislation to give law enforcement agencies access to communications sent via encrypted services a “crazy idea”.

Too late ever heard of Russian doll encryption?

You can now layer encryption with each container or application providing it's own encryption methods, strengths an processes. This post Snowden not pre.

Police Obtain Fingerprint Evidence from WhatsApp Photo in Drug Bust Troy Thompson, idropnews.com

We’ve heard a lot about how smartphone and data encryption is preventing law enforcement from successfully doing their jobs, but with all of the new and complex hacking tools at the disposal of those willing to pay, it’s safe to assume these conce…

Social media era is over.

BRAUN: Two-faced Facebook? Liz BraunMore from Liz Braun, torontosun.com

Whether you like it or not, the current Facebook fiasco involves you.

Yes, you and your amusing cat pictures and anything else you happen to post on the social media platform.

Just how big a boogeyman …

It's over...

Facebook must contest new class action over unlawful use of facial recognition technology Scott Scrivens, androidpolice.com

2018 has not been kind to Facebook thus far. The Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal continues to haunt Mark Zuckerberg and his company, which is trying desperately to right wrongs with policy …

Facebook Hearings Illuminate Future of Business and Data Privacy Steven Norton and Angus Loten, wsj.com

At very least, hearings reinforce need to be upfront with customers, says one CIO

The grilling of Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg by Congress last week has prompted organizations to revisit their data-usage policies and take a clos…

Considered criminal acts now.

High Court rules against Google in "right to be forgotten" case Gabriella Buckner, alphr.com

The man who won his case was one of the two unnamed men fighting for their past convictions to be delisted

A businessman has his 'right to be forgotten' case against Google in a ruling made in …

Indonesia MPs grill Facebook officials on data breaches By Cindy Silviana, reuters.com

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A Facebook official apologised to Indonesian members of parliament on Tuesday during a five-hour grilling at a public hearing on issues ranging from the misuse of personal data to the oversight of content by the social media…

Facebook under fire for storing facial recognition data without consent by Kaya Yurieff, cnn.com

Facebook is once again under fire, but this week the company is taking flack for its facial recognition software and not a geopolitical data scandal.

A US federal judge on Monday ruled Facebook will have to face a class action lawsuit that alleg…

Hangman for all US tech. He admitted too several crimes already and told on the others also committing crimes in his industry.

Commentary: Perspectives on the data privacy crisis from a social network entrepreneur David Longdon, geekwire.com

[Editor’s Note: This guest commentary is by Seattle-based entrepreneur David Longdon, founder and president of motion.social.]

For the last few years, I’ve been on an admittedly quixotic …

What are they going to try and erase all big data on remote servers now. So my children humans can’t handle destroying evidence.

Sucks too be you. People don’t forget those connected ID files they tried to force, now evidence is on an infinite am out of remote servers. Google was breaking in and reading emails without permission. It’s ugly for US tech, so many crimes. Biometrics, illegal wiretapping, stalking without any TOS ao any agreement from non-users, etc, etc Fool Zucker-clown already admitted too the crimes and added others...

Protect Your Data Privacy Online: Top Experts Share Personal Stories informationweek.com

Nervous about your privacy online? We've asked data and analytics experts how they protect their own privacy. Here's what they said.

How do you protect your personal information online these days, …

Yep, it's over and they built their own case against their selves, big data.

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