Mary-Ann Russon reports: Police in the US are continuing to raid the homes of people who operate exit nodes for the Tor anonymity network, most recently searching the condo belonging to a pair of outspoken privacy activists in Seattle. On 30 March, Seattle Privacy Coalition cofounders Jan Bultmann and David Robinson were woken up at…
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Is it OK to spy on your kids? How about other people’s kids?
WISH in Indianapolis recently reported: As kids get older, they will likely ask you for social media accounts and a cell phone. As their parent, you might agree to it as long as you can monitor what they’re doing. But when does ‘monitoring’ cross the line into spying? And do kids have a right to…
The Debate over Etsy Privacy Continues
Ina Steiner writes: Some sellers remain concerned over Etsy’s handling of sensitive information that came to light last week. We’ve been covering the story, and in light of the serious allegations raised by sellers, we reached out to a security expert and gave Etsy an opportunity to respond. As we reported last week, Etsy announced a new…
Google fined $112,000 by French regulator over ‘right to be forgotten’
PTI reports that France’s National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL) has gone and done it – they’ve fined Google $112,000 for failure to fully comply with requests to remove search results from people who have made requests under “right to be forgotten.” The dispute between France’s data protection agency (CNIL) and Google has been going…