Jeff Kosseff, who has a book about Section 230 that more people need to read, writes: When I started writing a book about an arcane internet law more than three years ago, I never could have predicted the controversy that I would encounter. My book, The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet, tells the history of Section 230 of the…
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‘It’s immoral or incompetent’: ad industry skewers Twitter on security data misuse
John McCarthy reports: Ad industry executives have hit out at Twitter after it admitted it “may have… inadvertently” used sensitive information given by users for security purposes to also help target advertising. […] Neville Doyle, chief strategy officer at Town Square, suggested it was “enormously improbable” that Twitter ‘inadvertently’ improved its ad product with the…
Doxxing has become a powerful weapon in the Hong Kong protests
Masha Borak reports: Since my personal information has been posted online, I get a lot of hidden phone calls,” said David, a victim of Hong Kong’s recent doxxing boom. David, an alias used to avoid bringing further unwanted attention, had his private information leaked on a website that targets Hong Kong protesters and anyone thought…
The Limits to Class Action Privacy Claims in Ontario
Brian N. Radnoff and Jacky Cheung of Dickinson Wright write: Since the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision in Jones v Tsige,[1] creating an Ontario version of the tort of invasion of privacy called “intrusion upon seclusion”, privacy-related class actions have emerged as a growth area. Many of these have focused on the institutional release of…