It is obvious to people who are aware of mass surveillance that we all are being watched. Anything digital is swept up, made Google-like searchable, connected to others and also events, regardless whether those connections are relevant or not.
We talk about our usual Minnesota tech stories but in our other top tech stories was one that caught our attention about Lavabit’s Ladar Levinson launching a new encrypted email service that is better than the original once used by Edward Snowden. Since email is usually core to how and what we communicate, obtain password resets, archive email attachments and much more that we want to keep secure from the government OR from companies that can scan our email (e.g., Google’s Gmail and Yahoo Mail), protecting our private and confidential communications is critical in this time of mass surveillance.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson
Music: Houkago Stride by JubyPhonic under a CC by 4.0 License
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Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories
- Tech company Spok adding 60 Twin Cities jobs
- Digi International makes another ‘cold chain’ buy
- Best Buy CEO swats down rumors he’s leaving
- Target reports weaker than expected holiday sales
- (Minnesota) Court rules against man who was forced to fingerprint-unlock his phone
- UPDATE: bar.com domain portfolio auction
Other Top Tech Stories
- Andy Rubin Nears His Comeback, Complete With an ‘Essential’ Phone
- Encrypted Email Service Once Used By Edward Snowden Relaunches
- Mention of Protonmail
- Trump said to elevate Ajit Pai, a fierce critic of net neutrality, to FCC chairman
- Samsung will explain the Galaxy Note 7 explosions Sunday night
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: #istandwithrosa
- Tim: Xiaomi Mi Band 2
- Steve: Fasetto Link “A game-changing storage and connectivity solution.”
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