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

No mention of data mining in this piece from 2012, but still a useful follow-up to the Michael Morris essay on keeping college campuses safe.

This article opened my eyes to many things, such as how many cookies can be stored on your computer from not going to many websites, how easy it is to track ones location, and how Facebook could easily recognize you in real life. It discussed ways that information is gathered and stored about someone online that I hadn't even thought of before and was very eye-opening.

Facebook already knew you would feel that way about this news.

Which terrorists are more pressing, domestic or international?

First official confirmation that strong encryption is foiling government wiretaps.

Apparently, if you use strong encryption, the NSA pays more attention to you.

Malicious adverts have been found on the UK version of the Match.com dating website. Anyone caught out by the booby-trapped ads could fall victim to ransomware, said security company Malwarebytes, which spotted the cyber-threat. The malicious ads appeared on pages of the dating site via an ad network that pipes content to Match and many other places.