Ellen Nakashima reports: Social media sites such as Twitter and YouTube would be required to report videos and other content posted by suspected terrorists to federal authorities under legislation approved this past week by the Senate Intelligence Committee. The measure, contained in the 2016 intelligence authorization, which still has to be voted on by the full…
Category: Online
Russian parliament votes to adopt controversial privacy law
AP reports: Lawmakers in the Russian parliament have voted for a bill forcing online search engines to remove search results about a specific person at that person’s request. The Russian State Duma on Friday voted overwhelmingly for the controversial law that critics say could be used to block information critical of the government or government…
French data protection regulator warns 20 websites on cookie use
Out-Law.com reports: France’s data protection regulator Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) has given 20 websites notice over their failure to comply with EU web-tracking regulations. The websites do not give users enough information about cookies and other tracking devices placed in their browsers, and do not seek proper consent, CNIL said (link in French). Read…
Revenge porn hacker pleads guilty, faces 7 years
Sarah Ashley O’Brien reports: Chalk one up for revenge porn victims. Charlie Evens, 26, has pleaded guilty to hacking into the email accounts of hundreds of women to steal and resell their naked pictures. He faces up to seven years in prison. […] When Evens was 23, he was hired by Hunter Moore, who is…