James Vlahos reports: On 21 November 2015, James Bates had three friends over to watch the Arkansas Razorbacks play the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Bates, who lived in Bentonville, Arkansas, and his friends drank beer and did vodka shots as a tight football game unfolded. After the Razorbacks lost 51–50, one of the men went home;…
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District of Columbia Introduces Legislation on Data Privacy
Sydny Shepard reports: District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine has introduced the Security Breach Protection Amendment Act of 2019, which would modernize the District’s data breach law and strengthen protections for residents’ personal information. Racine introduced the bill in response to the major data breaches that have put tens of millions of consumers,…
AU: Proposal to Increase Penalties for Privacy Breaches
Cameron Abbott of K&L Gates of writes: In light of concerns over how personal data is being used by social media platforms and tech companies, the Commonwealth Government has proposed amendments to the Privacy Act in order to more harshly penalise companies for privacy breaches. The new regime, which aims to update Australia’s privacy laws in…
Telegram privacy features likely to prove controversial
Ben Lovejoy reports: Two new Telegram privacy features are likely to prove controversial. The first removes the previous 48-hour time limit for ‘unsending’ anything you wrote from the devices of both participants using the secure messaging app … The second is that you can now delete entire chats, again for both parties. Telegram announced the…