Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger write: Google’s recent decision to delist “revenge porn” from its search results is a big deal, and not just for victims. Beyond opposing harmful conduct that disproportionately targets women, Google has essentially demonstrated how something akin to the European Union’s right to be forgotten can, and should, work in the US. Some Americans have panicked…
Category: Online
Privacy under threat in Hong Kong
Jennifer Cheung writes: Hong Kong’s top security official has finally clarified the legal procedure governing law enforcement’s requests for user information from Internet service providers. Unsurprisingly, there is no legal procedure. We can’t help but ask: is our metadata non-sensitive enough to justify government agencies’ access without any judicial review or oversight? During a Legislative Council…
Changes to Domain Name Rules Place User Privacy in Jeopardy
Jeremy Malcolm and Mitch Stoltz write: TG Storytime is a free community website for transgender authors, operated by Joe Six-Pack, himself a transgender author and publisher. If you look up the registration details of Joe’s domain tgstorytime.com using the WHOIS application, you get this result: Registrant Name: Registration Private Registrant Organization: Domains By Proxy, LLC…
Lawsuit Claims Verizon Conspired to Insert ‘Supercookie’ to Track Mobile Web
Chriss W. Street reports: Marketing company Turn Inc. of Redwood City has been sued in what looks to be a huge mass tort lawsuit alleging a conspiracy with telecommunications giant Verizon Wireless to engage in undisclosed tracking and storing of Internet browsing histories. According to a complaint filed Friday in the Los Angeles Superior Court by plaintiffs’…