Sam Grover of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand has written a post about the Ashley Madison data leak and what New Zealand law says about the use or any data in the data dump. Here are some excerpts: My name is in the data dump and people are threatening to…
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UK: Google ordered to remove search results by ICO
Google Inc. has been ordered to remove nine search results after the ICO ruled that they linked to information about a person that was no longer relevant. Of note, this relates to a case where Google had agreed to delist original search results, but then refused to delist search results to media sites that reported…
The Intersection Of Trade Secret Law And Social Media Privacy Legislation
Eric F. Barton, Esq. of Seyfarth Shaw LLP writes: There is no question that social media privacy issues now permeate the workplace. In an attempt to provide further guidance and regulation in this area, since April 2012, a growing number of state legislatures in the United States have passed various forms of social media privacy…
Facebook wasn’t great at respecting privacy in the first place. It’s gotten much worse.
Henry Farrell reports: Facebook’s privacy practices have always been controversial. It doesn’t charge its users–because its users are the product. The company sells information on its users, their social networks, services they like, and a multitude of other forms of information to advertisers and marketers. This gives Facebook a strong incentive to push privacy boundaries constantly, since the…