Paul Bernal writes:
You might not have noticed thanks
to world
events, but the UK
parliament recently approved the government’s so-called Snooper’s Charter
and it will soon become law. This
nickname for the Investigatory Powers Bill is well earned. It represents a new level and nature of surveillance
that goes beyond anything previously set out in law in a democratic society. It is not a modernisation of existing law, but
something qualitatively different, something that intrudes upon every UK
citizen’s life in a way that would even a decade ago have been inconceivable.
The bill
requires internet and telecoms companies to keep records of every
website or app we use and all our phone calls and messages for 12 months. It leaves us in the unenviable position of
leading the world in the legalisation of surveillance. And it will likely be used by more
authoritarian regimes around the globe as evidence that mass surveillance,
online hacking and encryption backdoors are perfectly fine.
Read more on The
Conversation.
It’s an easy way to gather information.
James Walker writes:
Concerns have been raised over
the privacy afforded by caller ID apps such as Truecaller and CM Security. The apps are storing the details of billions
of people in publicly searchable databases. People who have never used an app are also
affected.
Three billion phone numbers and
identities have been collected by the likes of Truecaller, Sync.ME and CM
Security, according to a report by FactWire that was published in the Hong Kong
Free Press earlier this week.
Read more on Digital
Journal. And if you missed it, I had
reported earlier this week that the privacy commissioner of Hong Kong had followed
up on the concerns.
Perspective.
Value of Payments Provider Stripe Doubles to $9.2 Billion
Stripe Inc., a start-up that offers software and services
that process payments for businesses, has raised another round of private
funding that values the company at just under $9.2 billion, according the
company’s investors.
That valuation is
nearly double what Stripe was worth nearly a year and a half ago.
… In addition to
payments processing, Stripe offers a payment fraud prevention product and a
tool kit called Stripe Atlas that allows entrepreneurs around the globe to
register their new businesses as United States-based companies with a United
States bank account, Stripe payments tools and basic legal, tax and computing
services from the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, the law firm Orrick,
Herrington & Sutcliffe and Amazon Web Services. Atlas
decreases the time it takes to set up a company from months to days.
… “Stripe’s
momentum as the underlying platform for online commerce is just accelerating
when you think about the fact that less than
10 percent or so of commerce is online today,” Mr. Taneja said.
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