In 2018, PogoWasRight.org blogged about a case involving a young person’s complaint about IMDb refusing to remove a page about him that contained fraudulent information about him. The page had been created by his friend when they were young teenagers, and contained his real name and location but fake movie credits. When Kenny sought its…
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Twitter Expects to Pay Up to $250 Million in FTC Fine Over Alleged Privacy Violations
Todd Spangler reports: Twitter disclosed that it anticipates being forced to pay an FTC fine of $150 million to $250 million related to alleged violations over the social network’s use of private data for advertising. The company revealed the expected scope of the fine in a 10-Q filing with the SEC. Twitter said that on July 28 it received…
The College Board Is Sharing Student Data Once Again
Bill Fitzgerald had a concerning thread on Twitter yesterday about some research on College Board and the sharing of student data. I will not reproduce his whole thread here, but he points us to the team’s report on Consumer Reports, authored by Thomas Germain. The bullet points alone are enough to make you realize that…
San Francisco Police Accessed Business District Camera Network to Spy on Protestors
Dave Maass and Matthew Guariglia of EFF write: The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) conducted mass surveillance of protesters at the end of May and in early June using a downtown business district’s camera network, according to new records obtained by EFF. The records show that SFPD received real-time live access to hundreds of cameras…