Jonny Bonner reports: Google and Twitter got miserable “no star” rankings this week in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s fifth annual report on Internet privacy. The nonprofit’s “Who Has Your Back” report measured “which companies fight the hardest to protect their customers from government data grabs,” the EFF said. The EFF that for more than a…
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France Tells Google Apply Right to Be Forgotten Worldwide or Face Fines
From EPIC.org: French authorities have threatened Google with fines if it fails to apply Europe’s right to be forgotten ruling to the search engine’s global domains, including Google.com. Google has been reluctant to apply the landmark decision broadly, even after officials across Europe made clear that Google is violating the court judgement if it routinely…
New Report Shows Which Mexican ISPs Stand With Their Users
Luis Fernando Garcia and Katitza Rodriguez write: Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales, the leading digital rights organization in Mexico and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, today launched ¿Quién Defiende Tus Datos? (Who Defends Your Data?), an evaluation of the privacy practices of the digital communication companies that millions of Mexicans use every day. The…
Facebook taken to court by Belgian privacy watchdog
Facebook can’t claim it wasn’t warned as back in May, the Belgian privacy commissioner was making noises about taking Facebook to court. The BBC reports that it’s now gone to the next level: Facebook is being taken to court by the Belgian privacy commissioner over claims it tracks people across the web. The country’s Privacy…