Glyn Moody reports: The Italian data protection authority has ordered Facebook to provide an Italian user with all of their data, including the personal information, photos, and posts of a separate fake account set up in that person’s name by somebody else. In addition, the US social network must provide details of how the personal…
Category: Online
Dallas Police publish personal information about sex assault victims online
From the this-is-totally-unacceptable dept. Andrea Peterson of WaPo reports: The Dallas Police Department made public the names, ages and home addresses of some alleged sexual assault victims on an official website, an incident that highlights how the push to put more police records online may also be inadvertently leaving victims exposed. Dallas police are not alone…
Opinion: Canadians shouldn’t have an online right to be forgotten
Canadian privacy lawyer David Fraser has an OpEd in Globe and Mail about why any right to be forgotten (RTBF) law in Canada would not be a good idea. He writes, in part: It is not surprising that the Privacy Commissioner wants to discuss whether our laws include or should include such a right. While it…
Tinder under fire for releasing personal information in group chat
Kristina Behr reports: There’s the online persona you want to share with your friends — carefully filtered Instagram photos of your sublime beach vacation, for example. Then there’s the side you’d perhaps rather keep private — like your Tinder profile. But a new feature on the dating app seems to be mixing the two. Tinder…