Bravo to now-tenured law prof Woodrow Hartzog for this great piece on Slate. It begins: Are you an OkCupid user? Would you consider the data on your profile public—fair game for anyone to download and share with the rest of the world? That’s the argument made by a group of Danish researchers who released a data seton nearly…
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Google appeals French order for global ‘right to be forgotten’
Julia Fioretti reports: Alphabet Inc’s Google appealed on Thursday an order from the French data protection authority to remove certain web search results globally in response to a European privacy ruling, escalating a fight on the territorial reach of EU law. […] “As a matter of both law and principle, we disagree with this demand,”…
GAFE: UC students suit claims Google scanned accounts without permission
Ethan Baron reports: Legal action against Google by four UC Berkeley students has ballooned into two lawsuits by 890 U.S. college students and alumni alleging the firm harvested their data for commercial gain without their consent. But the students’ claims may be derailed by a dispute over whether they should file their cases individually, rather…
IA: ‘Degrading’ blog features students’ backsides
Maybe it’s just selective attention, but it seems that there are more reports coming out of students taking problematic pictures of other students in public spaces of schools. In today’s news, Ryan Smith reports on a situation in Des Moines, Iowa: Polk County authorities are investigating a scandalous blog featuring the backsides of multiple girls at…