Jordan O’Brien reports: Think those cheeky Snapchats are completely safe? Maybe not according to a new blog post from the company. According to Micah Schaffer, the person in charge of trust and safety issues at Snapchat, law enforcement agencies can gain access to some Snapchats with a suitable warrant — just like any other service. Unlike…
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Some Dutch phone firms break law on internet traffic info storage
From Expatica: A quarter of Dutch telecoms firms are using phone and email details they are required to store by law for marketing purposes, Nos television reports on Monday. Nor are some of them destroying the information a year after it was collected, as they are supposed to do, Nos said. The facts are contained…
Privacy Class Actions May Be Too Big to Settle
Scott Graham writes: Plaintiffs appear to be in the driver’s seat in two big privacy class actions against Google. The suits over Gmail and Street View have survived motions to dismiss, and the Ninth Circuit has emphatically rejected Google’s appeal in the Street View case. This is a point where settlement discussions would typically intensify….
Stanford researchers discover ‘alarming’ method for phone tracking, fingerprinting through sensor flaws
James Temple writes: One afternoon late last month, security researcher Hristo Bojinov placed his Galaxy Nexus phone face up on the table in a cramped Palo Alto conference room. Then he flipped it over and waited another beat. And that was it. In a matter of seconds, the device had given up its “fingerprints.” Code running on…