July 26 – A Herndon man was sentenced today to one year in prison for cyberstalking a victim in New York. According to court documents, Brandon Theresa, 21, engaged in an extensive cyberstalking campaign against a victim from at least May 2015 through December 2018. During that time, he accessed the victim’s online accounts without…
Category: Online
New French Guidelines on Cookies and Trackers
Patrice Navarro of Hogan Lovells writes: On 19 July the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) published new guidelines on cookies and trackers. These replace the existing Recommendation No. 2013-378 of 5 December 2013, are intended to be in line with relevant GDPR provisions and have been produced in anticipation of the future ePrivacy Regulation….
Social Media Disclosure Order Causes a FIT
Scott Greenfield writes: The LA Times calls it “unprecedented,” which may be true in the sense that it’s never happened before. But the notion that corporations aren’t above the law isn’t entirely novel, and even the behemoths, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (“FIT”), must comply with a California state court order in a criminal proceeding. Imagine…
Thousands of pornography sites leak data to Google and Facebook
Adam Vaughan reports: More than 90 per cent of pornography sites leak data on people browsing them to third party companies, including Google and Facebook. Elena Maris at Microsoft Research and her colleagues analysed 22,500 pornography sites around the world found that tracking of users was “endemic” and posed “wide-scale privacy and security risks”. Tracking…