Telecompaper reports: Spain’s football league (La Liga) has been fined a total of EUR 250,000 by the country’s data protection agency (AEPD) for using a mobile app to remotely activate smartphone microphones, reports local daily El Diario. The league last year admitted that its highly popular official app, which is used by 4 million people…
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FBI announces sentencing of cyberstalker
June 10, 2019 Cyberstalker Sentenced Man Relentlessly Harassed Law School Interviewer A Delaware attorney who interviewed prospective students for his alma mater law school became the victim of a relentless campaign of online harassment—and in-person intimidation—by a prospective student who did not get in to the school. But thanks to an investigation by the FBI…
Maine’s Governor Mills Signs Strictest Internet Privacy Legislation In the Country Into Law
June 6 – Governor Janet Mills today signed LD 946 “An Act To Protect the Privacy of Online Customer Information,” sponsored by Senator Shenna Bellows of Manchester. The internet privacy legislation, which garnered bipartisan support and unanimous approval in the Maine Senate, prevents the use, sale, or distribution of a customer’s personal information by internet…
Russia Says it Will Soon Begin Blocking Major VPNs
Andy writes: Back in March, ten major VPN providers including NordVPN, ExpressVPN, IPVanish and HideMyAss were ordered by Russian authorities to begin blocking sites present in the country’s national blacklist. Following almost total non-compliance, the country’s telecoms watchdog says that blocking nine of the services is now imminent. Read the report on Torrent Freak.