Lewis Morgan reports: Remember the Belgian Facebook case last month that saw Facebook fined a staggering €250,000 a day for using cookies to track the activity of non-users? Well, Facebook has now said it will respond by requiring Belgian Facebook users to be logged in to see any content. The 9 November court ruling by…
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Google Deceptively Tracks Students’ Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint
Remember when I raised questions about why Google Apps for Education were showing ads to students even though they had signed the Student Privacy Pledge? Google never answered me, but I wasn’t the only one asking questions. And I’m very glad to see this press release from EFF today, even though it doesn’t address the advertising question…
A Deeper Look Inside the PECB, Pakistan’s Terrible Cyber-Crime Bill
Wafa Ben Hassine writes: The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (PECB) has received harsh criticism inside and outside of Pakistan since its radical re-drafting in April of this year. A coalition of Pakistan’s leading online rights groups and businesses warned the current version, written with no input from legal experts or technologists, would “adversely impact…
How uploading pictures of your pet cat can breach your privacy
Thomas Burrows reports: A Florida professor has shown how innocently uploading a picture of your pet cat can allow stalkers to pinpoint exactly where the image was posted. Owen Mundy, an art professor at Florida State university, has created a website ‘I know where your cat lives’ to raise awareness of how people were giving…