U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced this week that border and airport searches of phones and laptops nearly doubled in the past six months. We can expect the rise in password demands and border searches to continue. Congress recently and unceremoniously reversed new privacy rules enacted last year by the Federal Communications Commission. The idea is to improve advertising, but it will be trivially easy for spy agencies, hackers and others to pose as advertisers and grab all this data. We’re likely to find out that our personal data has been stolen long after exposure has taken place.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3190228/honesty-is-not-the-best-privacy-policy.html