Amnesty International writes: Viet Nam’s proposed new Cybersecurity Law will grant the government unbridled power to police the last safe space for freedom of expression in the country, if passed by the National Assembly on Tuesday, said Amnesty International. The law would give sweeping new powers to the Vietnamese authorities, allowing them to force technology…
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Not a great way to wake up (UPDATED)
UPDATE – June 10. I heard from Michael Gottlieb of Boies Schiller Flexner. They are withdrawing the subpoena and replacing it with a more narrow one. Obviously, I am very glad to hear that, and thank Michael for contacting me to let me know that it was never their intention to have me or other…
Facebook bug set 14 million users’ sharing settings to public
Heather Kelly reports: For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday. The bug, which affected those users from May 18 to May 22, occurred while Facebook was testing a new feature….
Belated bans? Twitter is banning accounts that were created before user was 13.
Attempts to comply with GDPR is having some interesting effects. Jordan Pearson reports: Since the European Union’s new data privacy laws—the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR—came into effect last week, a ton of people have complained that their Twitter accounts were suspended because Twitter seems to believe they are under the age of 13,…