Joseph Cox reports: A judge has ordered Yahoo to present a witness and provide documents explaining how the company handles supposedly deleted emails. The move comes in the appeal case of a drug trafficker who was convicted, in part, because of emails Yahoo provided to law enforcement that conspirators believed had been deleted. Defense lawyers…
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Tech giants silent on new Russian surveillance law
Shaun Waterman reports: U.S.-based tech giants appear set to silently ignore new Russian laws requiring them to hand over encryption keys for internet communications to state security agencies, those tracking the issue tell FedScoop. Only two encryption providers appear to have publicly responded to the new legislation, known as “Yarovaya law,” after the hardline lawmaker responsible for drafting it. One virtual private network provider, Private Internet…
Airtel is sniffing and censoring CloudFlare’s traffic in India and CloudFlare doesn’t even know it.
From a post on Medium: Airtel is sniffing and intercepting ALL unencrypted traffic going upstream from CloudFlare’s India data centres, irrespective of what ISP the user is on. This potentially affects everyone in India accessing ANY of the 2 million+ sites on CloudFlare. Read more on Medium. For its part, Airtel denies the claims. As reported on India TV News:…
Norway body says web images of children may breach privacy
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) says publishing photographs of one’s offspring online could breach their right to privacy, according to newspaper Verdens Gang’s website, VG.no. It cited the authority’s communications advisor, Guro Skaltveit, as saying parents tend to publish images of their children that they would never publish of themselves, setting an incautious example….