Bryan Carney reports: The Nova Scotia division of the RCMP bought use of a tool designed to “unlock” lists of friends that Facebook users set to be hidden. Web Identity Search Tool also was built to extract entire user timelines from Facebook. But now, following a Tyee investigation and a Facebook legal complaint to WIST’s…
Category: Online
Tim Berners-Lee asks everyone to do new biz a Solid and let him have another crack at fixing the Web’s privacy
Kieren McCarthy reports: Inventor of the world wide web, Tim Berners-Lee, is having another crack at fixing the internet’s biggest problems with the launch of a new enterprise server. The Inrupt Enterprise Solid Server is the first product from a company the inventor started two years ago in response to the problem of personal data online, where tech giants like…
Prop. 24 passes in California, pushing privacy rights to the forefront again
Laura Hautala reports: California voters Tuesday approved a ballot measure that aims to beef up consumer privacy protections, according to unofficial returns published by the state’s Secretary of State. Prop. 24’s proponents said the initiative will close a loophole in the state’s current privacy law that lets major tech companies keep targeting ads with user data, even when users opted…
French Court of Cassation Decides That an Employer Can Use a Facebook Post to Dismiss an Employee
Kristof Van Quathem of Covington & Burling writes: On September 30, 2020, the French Court of Cassation (“Court”) ruled in favor of an employer that dismissed an employee because of the contents of a Facebook post (the decision is available here, in French). In particular, the employee in this case posted a photograph of a new…