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…
Category: Online
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…
Dutch art project exposes extent of surveillance, tests limits of law
Grace Dobush writes: …. With the advent of global surveillance, “Our world is becoming better behaved, but perhaps less human,” said Tijmen Schep, creative director of the Dutch arts collective SETUP, which for the past two years has worked on building a national database of Dutch citizens based solely on open source data. The initial point of the project –…