Philippine Daily Inquirer reports: Valenzuela City Rep. Wes Gatchalian has filed a bill seeking to criminalize identity theft and fraud such as the use of personal data to make fake accounts on social media to attack a person’s identity. Gatchalian said House Bill (HB) No. 5575, or the proposed “Anti-Identity Theft Act of 2017,” aims…
Category: Online
Tumblr ordered to disclose users who shared ‘revenge porn’ video
Julia Marsh reports: A victim of online “revenge porn” will get her own chance at retribution — going after more than 500 Tumblr viewers who got their kicks watching the non-consensual video. The first-of-its-kind ruling, handed down by a Manhattan judge Wednesday, ordered the social networking platform to disclose the personal information of the hundreds…
Your Data Is Way More Exposed Than You Realize
Geoffrey A. Fowler has a piece in the Wall Street Journal that probably will not surprise my readers, but might be a good one for you to point naive relatives or friends to. He reports, in part: The most innocuous fragments of your digital life— Facebook posts, even the Find My iPhone app—can be weaponized…
Facebook fined €150k by French regulator over privacy breach
Duncan Robinson reports: A French regulator has fined Facebook €150,000 for breaching data protection laws in the social network’s latest spat with European authorities over privacy. The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés imposed the sanction after finding that Facebook was collecting information on users for advertising “without having a legal bases”. Read more…