Molly Quell reports: Ireland may be home to Facebook’s European headquarters, but that doesn’t make the Irish Data Protection Commission the only body able to go after the social media giant, a magistrate for the EU’s top court said Tuesday. The case was referred to the European Court of Justice by the Hof van beroep,…
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Should Amazon AWS’s termination of Parler’s contract make HIPAA-covered entities concerned?
One of my go-to HIPAA law resources is attorney Jeff Drummond. He and I often disagree on politics, but I will always consider what he says This week, I found myself seriously disagreeing with one of Jeff’s blog posts. Unless you’ve been living under a rock this week, you already know about the brouhaha when…
Millions Flock to Telegram and Signal as Fears Grow Over Big Tech
By Jack Nicas, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel report: Neeraj Agrawal, a spokesman for a cryptocurrency think tank, has typically used the encrypted messaging app Signal to chat with privacy-minded colleagues and peers. So he was surprised on Monday when the app alerted him to two new users: Mom and Dad. “Signal still had a subversive shine…
These 6 browser extensions will protect your privacy online
Zack Whittaker writes: The internet is not a private place. Ads try to learn as much about you to sell your information to the highest bidder. Emails know when you open them and which links you click. And some of the biggest internet snoops, like Facebook and Amazon, follow you from site to site as…