Park Eun-Jee reports: The discussion of a “right to be forgotten,” a concept that advocates individuals’ right to have online content deleted, inadvertently erupted in Korea when a popular rapper named MC Mong was embroiled in a military dodging scandal. At the height of the controversy in 2010, net users found the singer’s web post…
Category: Online
Social media policy for government-issued background investigations
The government has released a first-ever social media policy for background investigations, which will scan what applicants have posted on Facebook, Twitter and other sites to determine their trustworthiness. Read the full story on the Washington Post, and see the policy document.
Amendments to the Brazilian Marco Civil – Dilma signs “late night” amendments to Brazilian Internet law
Dirceu Santa Rosa writes: In one of the last acts from the now impeached President Dilma Rousseff, she signed and validated a few “late night” amendments on the Brazilian Internet Law (a.k.a., the “Marco Civil da Internet”). The official version ( in Portuguese ) of such amendments – Decree 8771/16 – can be found here. There…
Researchers just released profile data on 70,000 OkCupid users without permission
Brian Resnick writes: A group of researchers has released a data set on nearly 70,000 users of the online dating site OkCupid. The data dump breaks the cardinal rule of social science research ethics: It took identifiable personal data without permission. The information — while publicly available to OkCupid users — was collected by Danish…