{"id":19096,"date":"2016-03-23T13:36:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19096"},"modified":"2016-03-23T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:36:55","slug":"the-dangers-of-new-york-citys-public-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19096","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of New York City\u2019s Public Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Dangers of New York City\u2019s Public Wi-Fi<\/a><\/h3>\n
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If you\u2019re a NYC resident and find yourself excited about the city\u2019s public Wi-Fi network known as\u00a0LinkNYC, you may want to think again.<\/p>\n

As the\u00a0New York Civil Liberties Union<\/em>\u00a0(NYCLU)<\/em>\u00a0notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

March 16, 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 The city\u2019s new public Wi-Fi network LinkNYC raises several privacy concerns for users, the New York Civil Liberties Union announced today after sending a letter to the Office of the Mayor on Tuesday.\u00a0CityBridge, the company behind the LinkNYC kiosks that have begun replacing phone booths in Manhattan, retains a vast amount of information about users \u2013 often indefinitely \u2013 building a massive database that carries a risk of security breaches and unwarranted NYPD surveillance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNew Yorkers\u2019 private online activities shouldn\u2019t be used to create a massive database that\u2019s within the ready grasp of the NYPD,\u201d said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the NYCLU. \u201cFree public Wi-Fi can be an invaluable resource for this city, but New Yorkers need to know there are too many strings attached.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

LinkNYC, which was publicly launched in January, will eventually become a network of as many as 7,500 to 10,000 public kiosks offering fast and free Wi-Fi throughout all five boroughs. The sheer volume of information gathered by this powerful network will create a massive database of information that will present attractive opportunities for hackers and for law enforcement surveillance, and will carry an undue risk of abuse, misuse and unauthorized access.<\/em><\/p>\n

In order to register for LinkNYC, users must submit their e-mail addresses and agree to allow CityBridge to collect information about what websites they visit on their devices, where and how long they linger on certain information on a webpage, and what links they click on.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Dangers of New York City\u2019s Public Wi-Fi If you\u2019re a NYC resident and find yourself excited about the city\u2019s public Wi-Fi network known as\u00a0LinkNYC, you may want to think again. As the\u00a0New York Civil Liberties Union\u00a0(NYCLU)\u00a0notes: March 16, 2016\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 The city\u2019s new public Wi-Fi network LinkNYC raises several privacy concerns for users, the New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4285,13078,6174,568,3778],"class_list":["post-19096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-linknyc","tag-michael-krieger","tag-new-york-city","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19097,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions\/19097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}