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,…
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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…
Facebook gives moderators “full access” to user accounts suspected of terror links
Zack Whittaker reports: Facebook has a fleet of low-paid contractors who are tasked with investigating possible connections with terrorism on it site. The key takeaway: Moderators are granted “full access” to any account once it’s been flagged by the social network’s algorithms, which are looking for details or connections that might suggest a terror link….