Pham Du reports” Untold hours of private camera footage from bedrooms, changing rooms, toilets and massage parlors in Vietnam have been hacked and put on sale online. Minh Hung read the description of a private Telegram group which invited him to join: “A group specialized in hacking into private cameras of families and shops in…
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To Address Online Harms, We Must Consider Privacy First
Corynne McSherry, Cindy Cohn, Mario Trujillo, and Thorin Klosowski of EFF write: Every year, we encounter new, often ill-conceived, bills written by state, federal, and international regulators to tackle a broad set of digital topics ranging from child safety to artificial intelligence. These scattershot proposals to correct online harm are often based on censorship and news cycles. Instead…
YouTuber Arrested over Defaming Teen in Tokyo
JiJi Press reports: Tokyo police on Monday arrested a 40-year-old man who claims to be a “citizen’s arrest” YouTuber, for allegedly defaming a woman by taking footage of her without permission and posting it without blurring her face, according to investigative sources. The man is suspected of taking a video of a teenage girl near…
UK Online Safety Act Becomes Law
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes; On October 26, 2023, the UK Online Safety Act (the “Act”) received Royal Assent, making it law in the UK. The Act seeks to protect children from online harm and imposes obligations on relevant organizations, including social media platforms, to prevent and remove illegal and harmful content. In a press release, the…