W. Scott Blackmer writes: Mexico has joined the ranks of more than 50 countries that have enacted omnibus data privacy laws covering the private sector. The new Federal Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties (Ley federal de protección de datos personales en posesión de los particulares) (the “Law”) was published…
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Judge grants injunction against Ariz. immigration law
Susan Carroll reports: A federal judge today issued an injunction barring Arizona from enforcing key provisions of its controversial immigration law, prompting promises to appeal from supporters and tears of joy from opponents outside the state capitol. The parts of the law that Judge Susan Bolton put a hold on included sections that required officers…
100 million Facebook pages leaked on torrent site
The 2.8GB torrent was compiled by hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security, who created a web crawler program that harvested data on users contained in Facebook’s open access directory, which lists all users who haven’t bothered to change their privacy settings to make their pages unavailable to search engines. Bowes’ directory contains 171 million entries,…
Privacy Suit Targets Net Giants Over Zombie Cookies
Ryan Singel writes: A wide swath of the net’s top websites, including MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, NBC and Scribd, were sued in federal court Friday on the grounds they violated federal computer intrusion law by secretly using storage in Adobe’s Flash player to recreate cookies deleted by users. At issue is technology from Quantcast,…