Consumers have few legal options for protecting privacy

There are no promises in the words, “We care about user privacy.” Yet, these words appear on privacy policy after privacy policy, serving as disingenuous banners to hide potentially invasive corporate practices, including clandestine data collection, sharing, and selling. This is no accident. It ...

XMPP Mandating Encryption on Messaging Service Operators

Beginning today, the operators of instant messaging services that rely on the extensible messaging and presence protocol XMPP are expected to deploy encryption into the platforms they maintain. The XMPP Standard Foundation XSF announced today that a large number of services on the public XMPP...