Many of us get so busy with things during the holiday season, and with COVID-19 and the election lawsuits, it’s hard to keep up with all the privacy news. Thankfully, Joe Cadillic can help us keep up. Here are just a few links to a few news items that Joe compiled for the privacy-conscious: European…
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Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user’s mailbox, founder says ‘this is absurd’
Here we go again? Will this be another LavaBit? Gareth Corfield reports: Tutanota has been served with a court order to backdoor its encrypted email service – a situation founder Matthias Pfau described to The Register as “absurd.” Our friends at Heise reported auf Deutsch that a court in Germany last month ordered Tutanota to help investigators monitor the…
Google and Amazon fined for cookies breach by French privacy regulator
Sam Shead reports: France’s data protection regulator, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, issued Google and Amazon with substantial fines on Thursday for breaking rules on online advertising trackers, known as cookies. The watchdog ordered Google to pay 100 million euros ($121 million) and Amazon to pay 35 million euros. The CNIL said both companies had breached Article 82 of…
The untold story of how the Golden State Killer was found: A covert operation and private DNA
Paige St. John reports: The dramatic arrest in 2018 of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was all the more astounding because of how detectives said they caught the elusive Golden State Killer— by harnessing genetic technology already in use by millions of consumers to trace their family trees. But the DNA-matching effort that caught one of…