PTI in India reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday transferred to itself all cases related to the linkage of social media profiles with Aadhaar pending in different high courts and also asked the Centre to submit its report in January to check social media misuse. A bench of justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose, while…
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Privacy-focused email service Tutanota censored in Egypt, working on solutions
Didi Rankovic reports: Tutanota, a German open-source, end-to-end encrypted email service, is experiencing difficulties in Egypt, the company has announced. […] Regardless of Egypt’s history of restricting or blocking access to internet services, as well as introducing blackouts as a method of controlling the spread of information, Tutanota said it was unable to say at…
Understand the Internet’s Most Important Law Before Changing It
Jeff Kosseff, who has a book about Section 230 that more people need to read, writes: When I started writing a book about an arcane internet law more than three years ago, I never could have predicted the controversy that I would encounter. My book, The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet, tells the history of Section 230 of the…
‘It’s immoral or incompetent’: ad industry skewers Twitter on security data misuse
John McCarthy reports: Ad industry executives have hit out at Twitter after it admitted it “may have… inadvertently” used sensitive information given by users for security purposes to also help target advertising. […] Neville Doyle, chief strategy officer at Town Square, suggested it was “enormously improbable” that Twitter ‘inadvertently’ improved its ad product with the…