Emma Platoff reports: An appeals court has struck down Texas’ “revenge porn” law, ruling that the statute is overly broad and violates the First Amendment. The 2015 state law targets what author state Sen. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, called “a very disturbing internet trend” of posting a previous partner’s nude or semi-nude photos to the web without…
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The Watchdogs That Didn’t Bark
April Glaser writes: When Democrats and Republicans in Congress agree on something, it usually involves symbolic acts of patriotism or minimally decent acts of disaster relief. Add to that list: giving Mark Zuckerberg the third degree—and insisting that his company face some kind of consequence for the Cambridge Analytica scandal and how cavalierly it has…
Millions of Apps Leak Private User Data Via Leaky Ad SDKs
Update: this story seems to have been removed from ThreatPost after it was posted. Related to apps sharing personal information, Tom Spring reports: Millions of apps leak personal identifiable information such as name, age, income and possibly even phone numbers and email addresses. At fault are app developers who do not protect ad-targeting data transmitted…
Many child-oriented apps potentially violate US’ child privacy law
Williams Pelegrin writes: In a study published in the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies journal, researchers at the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley found that over half of child-oriented Android apps might be in violation of the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Titled “‘Won’t Somebody Think of the…