Mark Scott reports: Google won a reprieve Wednesday after one of France’s highest courts asked European judges to decide whether the tech giant should apply a privacy ruling across all of its search requests worldwide. The decision represents the latest turn in the often-heated debate around the so-called “right to be forgotten,” an earlier privacy…
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Social Media Site Reveals 300 Anonymous Users’ Personal Info To Revenge Porn Victim
Eric Lieberman reports: A social media site reportedly revealed the account information of roughly 300 once-anonymous users to a revenge porn victim, after a Manhattan judge ordered it in June. The victim, a 27-year-old from New York who remains unidentified, says a decade-old video showing her and her then-boyfriend having sex wasn’t removed from Tumblr for months,…
Marines Share Photo of Nude Unconscious Woman in New Revenge Porn Leak
Rory Laverty and James LaPorta report: Five months after the Marines United nude-photo scandal broke, there is a new group of victims, including an unconscious woman who was photographed naked. Explicit videos and photos of female servicemembers were posted last week in a Dropbox drive called “Girls of MU” and were shared in a closed…
Dutch health websites criticized for not following online privacy law
Healthcare providers and medical information websites have been criticised by the consumer watchdog for routinely breaching the privacy of people using their services online. The Consumentenbond said the sites were placing cookies on their web pages that allowed third-party sites, such as Google, to track people’s internet use without their consent. Some sites failed to carry…