Thomas Chan reports that the right to be forgotten issue has raised its head in Hong Kong: An order by the privacy watchdog to remove information from a website would create an “Orwellian memory hole” in society, a market analyst claimed today. David Webb, who runs Webb-site.com, was arguing before the Administrative Appeals Board after…
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Hacking Team orchestrated brazen BGP hack to hijack IPs it didn’t own
Dan Goodin reports: Spyware service provider Hacking Team orchestrated the hijacking of IP addresses it didn’t own to help Italian police regain control over several computers that were being monitored in an investigation, e-sent among company employees showed. Over a six day period in August 2013, Italian Web host Aruba S.p.A. fraudulently announced its ownership of 256…
50 Cent must pay $5M to woman who sued over sex tape
AP reports: Someone else’s sex tape is proving to be costly for 50 Cent: A jury ordered the rapper-actor Friday to pay $5 million to a woman who said he acquired a video she made with her boyfriend, added himself as a crude commentator and posted it online without her permission. And the Manhattan jurors are…
Arizona law on revenge porn to be permanently blocked
Bob Christie of AP reports: A 2014 state law that makes it a crime for jilted lovers to post nude photos of their former partners online will be permanently blocked from enforcement under an agreement between the ACLU and Attorney General Mark Brnovich. Legal documents filed in U.S. District Court Thursday include a proposed order…