Tobias Salinger reports: Playboy Playmate Dani Mathers faces an invasion of privacy charge in connection with the naked photo of a 70-year-old woman she posted online, officials said Friday. Mathers shared the picture of the woman in the shower at a Los Angeles gym on Snapchat in July and wrote, “If I can’t unsee this then you…
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German report points to online privacy violations by add-on site
DW reports: Using add-ons to enhance a browser might be costing internet users their privacy, a new report says. An investigative team of German journalists obtained a data set – and more private information than they bargained for. Downloading software is fraught with risk. Even if a download is malware-free, companies often use the software…
FCC Wades Back Into Data Privacy and Security for ISPs With Revised Privacy Proposal
Alan Friel and Suchismita Pahi of BakerHostetler write: Recently, Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Chairman Tom Wheeler circulated to the Commission a revised proposed order to regulate the data privacy and security practices of internet service providers (ISPs) (also known by the Commission as broadband internet access service (BIAS) providers). We previously wrote about…
Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
by Julia Angwin ProPublica, Oct. 21, 2016, 8 a.m. When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company’s “number one priority when we contemplate new kinds of advertising products.” And, for nearly a decade, Google did in fact keep DoubleClick’s massive database of web-browsing…