We talked about Apple as a champion for user privacy but here's an issue...

If you're writing about the rhetoric of the debate

Many many articles/ papers on security vs. privacy issues

Interesting article about how recent terror events will change how individuals and tech companies monitor/ regulate use on the internet, but not the government

This is the results of a Pew Research survey in May (of 2015) regarding Americans' opinions of the NSA, surveillance, national security, etc. This could be useful in the security vs. privacy paper, to look at the public opinion on these issues.

This article gives a method for generating secure yet easy to remember passwords for online accounts, using encryption and modular arithmetic (!). It is an interesting use of encryption in everyday life for something we all have, password-protected internet accounts. If you click through to the computer science category, you can find other posts on cryptography, encryption, and privacy.

The FCC decided Friday that it can't force Internet companies like Google, Facebook and ad providers from tracking users online.

Cory Doctorow's blog posts concerning RFID tags and arphid technology; especially several posts on its usage in schools

"Latest on the computer analyst whistleblower who provided the Guardian with top-secret NSA documents leading to revelations about US surveillance on phone and internet communications" - compilation of news sources on Edward Snowden

Interesting article describing the people who worked at Bletchley Park (UK) during WWII and the secrecy act that kept them silent. The article makes compelling comparisons to people today like Edward Snowden, who are legally bound to secrecy but ignore it. What are the ethical implications of being asked to keep military secrets? Of sharing military secrets? How do the differences between today's generation and the WWII generation affect how these ethics are viewed?

Blog for the University of Bristol cryptography research group; research and posts geared towards cryptology students

Interesting perspective how it's only in the news if someone's secrets are compromised, but not if their secrets are actually kept secret

Example of how improving technology requires new encryption that hasn't yet been cracked

Describes the personal relationship between President Abraham Lincoln and those who encoded military telegraph messages during the Civil War