Encryption

Last year, 15 million partially redacted public transport passenger details were posted online. It took researchers very little time to re-identify themselves and others, highlighting a risk to privacy

A recent investigation found a trapdoor in the SwissVote election system that also exists in New South Wales’ iVote, but further analysis has found a second problem in the verification process

New legislation aims to expose the communications of serious criminals, but it might undermine our security too

We need to rein-in data harvesting with more user control and simply less data collection

An international intelligence alliance wants to weaken data encryption for everyone in a bid to stop terrorists, but does it risk leaving us more exposed?

Testing the strength of methods used for protecting privacy in open data shouldn’t be a crime

Publishing data can bring benefits, but it also can be a great risk to privacy