AJ Dellinger reports: The Fourth Amendment of the United State Constitution, which protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures, does not protect users on the PlayStation Network from warrantless searches conducted by network proprietor Sony, a district court judge ruled this week. The case involved a PSN user going by the handle Susan_14. The account, owned…
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Adobe Acrobat Reader DC security update installs Chrome spyware
Woody Leonard reports: The latest version of the venerable (and oh-so-holey) PDF viewing routine, Acrobat Reader DC 15.023.20053, released this week, looks for information about your Google Chrome surfing habits. Without your knowledge or consent, the security patch installs a Chrome browser extension that’s spyware, pure and simple. The situation’s a little more complex, but…
You’ve probably never heard of this creepy genealogy site. But it knows a lot about you.
Abby Ohlheiser reports: Early Tuesday morning, Anna Brittain got a text from her sister: Did she know about Familytreenow.com? The relatively unknown site, which presents itself as a free genealogy resource, seemed to know an awful lot about her. “The site listed my 3- and 5-year-olds as ‘possible associates,’ ” Brittain, a 30-year-old young-adult fiction…
A lawyer rewrote Instagram’s terms of use “in plain English” so kids would know their privacy rights
Amy B. Wang reports: “‘Terms and conditions’ is one of the first things you agree to when you come upon a site,” Jenny Afia, a privacy lawyer and partner at Schillings law firm in London, told The Washington Post. “But of course no one reads them. I mean, most adults don’t read them.” Afia was…