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Cybersecurity
How do you protect the online privacy of your children?
What can you do as a parent to prevent too much information about your child being exposed online?
AV-vendors: we will act upon detecting govt malware
Last month, we – as part of an international coalition of civil rights organizations and academical experts – asked antivirus software vendors about their current position on detecting state-generated malware. Today, the deadline for reaction expired.
Dutch hacking proposal puts citizens at risk
The police should be allowed to hack into mobile phones and computers, even when these are located abroad. This is proposed by the Dutch government on May 2nd of 2013. While this appears to be a powerful asset for law enforcement, in reality it creates unnecessary vulnerabilities for citizens. Also, the proposal ignores several alternative […]
Improving cybersecurity
In response to serious information security incidents, we see the development of cybersecurity policy becoming more and more urgent. However, a vision of what such policy must include is still lacking. Bits of Freedom believes that we can significantly improve our cybersecurity through smart and focused measures. We have therefore drafted a paper that sets out […]
International coalition calls for withdrawal of Dutch hacking plans
An international coalition of more than 40 civil rights organizations and security experts is “gravely concerned” about a Dutch proposal to break into foreign computers and search and delete data. In a letter handed over by Dutch digital rights organization Bits of Freedom to the minister of Security & Justice yesterday, the coalition urgently calls […]