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…
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Amazon Releases New Guidance on AWS and FERPA
Dian Schaffhauser reports: More than two years after issuing guidance on FERPA compliance and Amazon Web Services, Amazon has updated the whitepaper to lay out the company’s “shared responsibility model” and provide specific guidance on 24 different AWS services. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, in general, calls for schools and agencies to “reasonably…
China’s Internet Underground Fights for Its Life
Bloomberg News reports: For years, thousands of virtual private networks (VPNs) have allowed people in China to circumvent restrictions on internet access and visit Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, and other sites blacklisted by the government. That’s changing. Chinese authorities say that starting on March 31 they’ll shut down or simply ban any providers of unauthorized…
Facebook Can’t Dodge Class Action Over Facial Data Harvesting
Nicholas Iovino reports: Rejecting suggestions on how the Founding Fathers might view modern digital privacy rights, a federal judge on Thursday refused to dismiss a class action claiming Facebook harvested users’ biometric facial data without consent. In 2016, Facebook attorneys argued in court that the authors of the U.S. Constitution never intended that people be…