Zack Whittaker and Natasha Lomas report: Twitter retains direct messages for years, including messages you and others have deleted, but also data sent to and from accounts that have been deactivated and suspended, according to security researcher Karan Saini. Saini found years-old messages in a file from an archive of his data obtained through the…
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You could face 15 years in jail for clicking a link under new UK anti-terror law
Connor Jones reports: A new UK law, which has just received royal assent, will see anyone found to have clicked on terrorist propaganda handed a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. The new Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 which gives UK law enforcement greater powers to investigate suspected hostile activity, also updates…
[UPDATED] Supreme Court of Canada to rule on case of teacher who secretly filmed students’ cleavage
UPDATE of Feb. 14: Hallelujah, common sense and privacy prevailed. Michael Geist tweets: Supreme Court of Canada overturns Court of Appeal in Jarvis with win for privacy – “students recorded by the accused were in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy” https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/17515/index.do — Michael Geist (@mgeist) February 14, 2019 Supreme Court…
India Seeks Access to Private Messages in WhatsApp Crackdown
Saritha Rai reports: India’s government dealt retail giants Amazon.com and Walmart a devastating blow this year with new policies undermining their growth plans. Now U.S. social media pioneers Facebook and Twitter are in danger of suffering similar setbacks in what is perhaps the world’s most important emerging technology market. In the latest skirmish, the government…