Dan Goodin reports: Researchers have recently developed the first reliable technique for websites to track visitors even when they use two or more different browsers. This shatters a key defense against sites that identify visitors based on the digital fingerprint their browsers leave behind. […] The new technique—outlined in a research paper titled (Cross-)Browser Fingerprinting via…
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Twitter Takes USA to Task on Surveillance
Helen Christophi reports: Attorneys for Twitter told a federal judge Tuesday that the government violated the First Amendment by barring it from publishing its own information about a federal surveillance program. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers grilled both sides during an arduous 90-minute hearing that ended in an impasse. “One of the things that…
Canada’s Federal Court awards damages against a foreign website for breach of privacy laws
Anastasia Semenova and Wendy J. Wagner of Gowling WLG write: In a recent decision, A.T. v Globe24h.com, 2017 FC 114, Canada’s Federal Court asserted jurisdiction over a foreign-based website that republished Canadian court and tribunal decisions from Canadian legal websites and allowed them to be indexed and rendered searchable on Google and other search engines. The…
Streetlife users in Nextdoor privacy row
Rory Cellan-Jones reports: It was meant to be a neighbourly get-together – but the takeover of the UK’s Streetlife website by America’s Nextdoor has left many British users deeply unhappy with the new arrangements. It has also revealed a transatlantic cultural chasm in attitudes to privacy. Nextdoor describes itself as a private social network, but…