Joseph Cox reports: Last year, Motherboard found Australian authorities had unmasked Tor users in the US as part of a child pornography investigation. Judging by court documents, Australian authorities sent targets a hyperlink to a video that, when clicked, would give their real IP address to investigators. Now, it has emerged the hacking operation was…
Category: Online
Privacy, what? Bengaluru police leaks 46,000 phone numbers on Twitter
IndiaToday reports: …… Bengaluru police goofed up too when it came to handling privacy concerns of Bengaluru citizens. The police department posted phone numbers of thousands of citizens on their Twitter handle (@BCPCR) who called 100 and complained against harassment, quarrels, and gambling etc. The police posted over 46,000 tweets online since April 2015 sharing…
How a now-defunct Romanian website exposed tension between privacy and openness in Canadian courts
Graeme Hamilton reports: In 2013, people who had appeared before Canadian courts started getting a nasty surprise. When their names were plugged into search engines, sensitive personal details from their court files jumped to the top of the results. Maybe they were HIV-positive. Maybe they had worked in the sex trade. Maybe they had gone…
New York’s top court rejects Facebook search warrant challenge
Ugh. Jonathan Stempel reports: New York state’s highest court on Tuesday rejected Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) challenge to 381 search warrants to uncover suspected widespread Social Security disability fraud by its customers. By a 5-1 vote, the Court of Appeals said it lacked jurisdiction to hear Facebook’s appeal over warrants obtained by the office of Manhattan…