Timothy B. Lee reports: More than 1,000 young people are facing charges in Denmark after allegedly sharing two sexually explicit videos and a photograph involving underage subjects on Facebook Messenger. Danish police announced the charges on Monday morning, according to the Danish publication The Local. The sharing occurred in late 2017 and depicted a sexual…
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Marketing online to kids in the age of GDPR poses new challenges
Robin Kurzer reports: Marketing online to kids has nearly always come with restrictions. […] Now, as the May 2018 compliance deadline for GDPR looms, companies in general are paying more attention to data privacy. Ad tech is collecting kids’ data at an alarming rate Dylan Collins, CEO of “kid-safe” ad platform SuperAwesome, says the amount…
Aussie Men Are Sharing Nudes Of Their Wives And Girlfriends On Craigslist Without Consent
Gina Rushton reports: Australian men are sharing pictures of women, in some cases without consent, on Craigslist. Some of the advertisements offered pictures of ex-partners as well as current girlfriends or wives. One Melbourne man posted a picture of a woman he had presumably slept with and asked to “swap pics of young sluts”. Another…
Electronic Toy Maker VTech Settles FTC Allegations That it Violated Children’s Privacy Law and the FTC Act
Electronic toy manufacturer VTech Electronics Limited and its U.S. subsidiary have agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that the company violated a U.S. children’s privacy law by collecting personal information from children without providing direct notice and obtaining their parent’s consent, and failing to take reasonable steps to secure the data it…