Dan Goodin reports: Privacy-tools-seller Windscribe said it failed to encrypt company VPN servers that were recently confiscated by authorities in Ukraine, a lapse that made it possible for the authorities to impersonate Windscribe servers and capture and decrypt traffic passing through them. The Ontario, Canada-based company said earlier this month that two servers hosted in Ukraine…
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House Passes the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act
From EPIC.org: The House of Representatives passed the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act (H.R. 2668) Tuesday on a 221-205 vote. The bill explicitly authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to seek monetary relief for injured consumers in federal court and to require bad actors to return money obtained through illegal actions. The amendment to the FTC…
The Past, Present and Future of US Privacy Law
From WilmerHale: In this article published by the Seton Hall Law Review (Vol. 51: Iss. 5, Article 5), Kirk Nahra discusses the history of privacy law, the current privacy structure, and what to expect for the future. Excerpt: Modern United States privacy law is roughly twenty years old. Even though still in its relative infancy, privacy law is…
Factbox: States using ID.me, rival identity check tools for jobless claims
Paresh Dave reports: Twenty-seven U.S. states are using identity proofing service ID.me, which compares selfies to official photo documentation, to vet whether jobless applicants are who they say they are, according to the company. Its fast growth has generated scrutiny. Read which states and which services they are using on Reuters. h/t, Joe Cadillic