From the FTC: The operator of an alleged “revenge porn” website is banned from publicly sharing any more nude videos or photographs of people without their affirmative express consent, under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. In addition, he will have to destroy the intimate images and personal contact information he collected while operating the site….
Category: Breaches
Ca: Teen’s private details disclosed in privacy breach
Ugh, ugh, ugh. Don Plan reports: When Sally picked up an envelope from a government office in Kelowna, she didn’t expect to find the private details of a suicidal teenager inside. Sally (not her real name) is a foster mom who stopped in to collect a one-page form she had to fill out for the…
Law Firm Founds Project to Fight ‘Revenge Porn’
Matthew Goldstein reports: A California law student and a Virginia man dated for about six months after meeting through an online dating service. The fallout from the breakup, however, has gone on far longer, as the former boyfriend faces federal criminal charges over posting nude selfies and a sexually explicit video of the woman on…
UK: Google to change privacy policy after ICO investigation; signs undertaking
From the Information Commissioner’s Office, this press release announcing that Google has signed an undertaking to improve its privacy policy to clarify how it collects and uses personal data in the UK. The undertaking arises from Google’s consolidation of its privacy policies in 2012: The ICO has required Google to sign a formal undertaking to…