How much specific information should the health department of your country or region give out about the location or identity of COVID-19 patients or those being monitored or tested? Some people may argue that public health concerns warrant government being more specific, perhaps, than they might otherwise be, but at what cost? From The Jakarta…
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Redditor Wins Fight to Stay Anonymous
A great news press release from EFF: A Reddit commenter has won their fight to stay anonymous after facing an improper copyright claim from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, a group that publishes doctrines for Jehovah’s Witnesses. A U.S. District Court judge has granted a motion to quash a subpoena for the identity of “Darkspilver,” a…
Court Upholds Facebook Privacy Settlement Over Message Scanning
Wendy Davis reports: A federal appeals court has upheld a Facebook’s settlement of a class-action privacy lawsuit centered on allegations that the company scans users’ private messages. The settlement — which requires Facebook to add a single, 22-word sentence to its help site — faced a challenge by an activist who argued the deal doesn’t…
Here’s the File Clearview AI Has Been Keeping on Me, and Probably on You Too
Anna Merlan reports on what information Clearview sent her about herself when she made a request under California law for her records and to have them deleted: I emailed privacy-requests@clearview.ai and requested information on any of my personal data that Clearview obtained, the method by which they obtained it, and how it was used. (You can read…