Kaleigh Rogers reports: Nobody actually reads through the privacy policies of every website, which is why researchers recently used artificial intelligence to create a tool that reads them for you and flags anything you might not be psyched to agree to. Launched earlier this year as a part of the Usable Privacy Project, the tool…
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Facebook suspends Trump campaign data firm Cambridge Analytica
Sky News reports: The data company that worked for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign has been suspended by Facebook for allegedly flouting data privacy policies. The social media giant said it had received reports that Cambridge Analytica did not delete information about Facebook users that had been inappropriately shared. Read more on Sky News….
California Facebook Decision At Odds With Illinois Courts
Erin Bolin Hanes writes: On February 26, 2018, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied Facebook, Inc.’s motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ consolidated class action complaint for failure to allege a concrete injury in fact under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1). Plaintiffs alleged Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” violated the Illinois…
Knock, knock. Whois there? Get ready for anonymized email addresses after domain privacy shake-up
Kieren McCarthy reports: You will no longer be able to see the name, email or house address for whoever owns a specific domain name under new rules proposed by DNS overseer ICANN. Such details will be removed from the Whois service that covers hundreds of millions of domain names across the world in order to…