Ikram Junaidi reports: The privacy policies of telecommunications providers in Pakistan are inconsistent, lack adequate oversight and updates and are not always readily available to the public, research has found. The Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) on Friday released a report on ‘Telecoms Privacy and Data Protection Policies in Pakistan’, in which the NGO studied the…
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Assaults on privacy in America
Jonathan Shaw writes: Do people behave differently when they think they are being watched? When former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed the mass surveillance of American citizens in June 2013, the question suddenly grew in importance. Can the behavior of an entire population, even in a modern democracy, be changed by awareness of…
Privacy? What’s Not To Like?
Back in March, I linked to an article in The Telegraph, “French parents ‘could be jailed’ for posting children’s photos online.” And in September, I linked to an article about an Austrian teen suing her parents for violating her privacy by posting her pictures online without her consent. Now Scott Greenfield has a post about the…
Clever Facebook Hack Reveals Private Email Address of Any User
Tom Spring reports: Christmas came early for Facebook bug bounty hunter Tommy DeVoss who was paid $5,000 this week for discovering a security vulnerability that allowed him to view the private email addresses of any Facebook user. “The hack allowed me to harvest as many email addresses as I wanted from anybody on Facebook,” DeVoss…