Ross Todd reports: Lawyers at Gallo LLP on Wednesday amended an email-scanning lawsuit they filed earlier this year on behalf of four former UC-Berkeley students against Google Inc. to add more than 700 additional plaintiffs from schools across the country. The flood of new plaintiffs in the suit raises the stakes significantly. Plaintiffs have sued…
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What ISPs Can See: Clarifying the technical landscape of the broadband privacy debate
A Canadian reader sent along a link to this paper. What ISPs Can See Clarifying the technical landscape of the broadband privacy debate Authors: Aaron Rieke, David Robinsoin, and Harlan Yu © 2016 Upturn. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. From the Introduction: In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reclassified broadband Internet…
Private Internet Access VPN provider’s no-logging claims confirmed in FBI case
Andy of TorrentFreak reports on a case in Florida where law enforcement attempted to obtain logs from Private Internet Access vpn, only to be told that no, they really don’t log. The details were incorporated in a criminal complaint (here). Andy quotes the relevant part: “During the course of the investigation, subpoenas and search warrants have been directed…
Don’t Post About Me on Social Media, Children Say
KJ Dell’Antonia writes that a recent study of 249 parent-child pairs revealed that kids are three times more concerned about what their parents are sharing about them online than the parents are. Read more on Well. h/t, Joe Cadillic