Michael Power writes: Manitoba’s Intimate Image Protection Act came into force on 15 January 2016. The statute does something that I think is especially noteworthy – it creates a new privacy tort concerning the “non-consensual distribution of intimate images”.In short, Manitoba becomes the first Canadian province to provide victims of revenge porn with a common law remedy…
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Germany’s highest court rules Facebook ‘friend finder’ is unlawful
Harro ten Wolde reports: Germany’s highest court has declared unlawful a feature that encourages Facebook users to market the social media network to their contacts, confirming the rulings of two lower courts. A panel of the Federal Court of Justice ruled that Facebook’s “friend finder” promotional feature constituted advertising harassment in a case that was…
Yahoo’s Gigantic ‘Anonymized’ User Dataset Isn’t All That Anonymous
Jordan Pearson reports: Yahoo Labs, the research wing of Yahoo, just released what the company is calling the “largest ever” machine learning dataset for artificial intelligence researchers to use in their work, for free. For example, to create a Facebook-like recommendation algorithm. In doing so, Yahoo also released information that could potentially be used by researchers who download the…
People don’t want to trade privacy for targeted ads
Rick Edmonds writes: The Pew Research Center has released another in a series of studies of privacy issues with fresh evidence that consumers do not want to sacrifice personal information to get served targeted ads. A separate study from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, to be presented at a Federal Trade Commission…