Darren Pauli reports: Hacker Joseph Redfern has reported a privacy flaw at UK telco Three, which exposed names and email addresses in online surveys. The telco shuttered the offending survey site and the exposed API which returned the private information in JSON forms when a user entered data. Refern says the flaw meant any phone number could…
Category: Online
New Hampshire and Oregon Student Privacy Legislation
Hunton & Williams writes: Legislators in New Hampshire and Oregon recently passed bills designed to protect the online privacy of students in kindergarten through 12th grade. On June 11, 2015, New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan (D-NH) signed H.B. 520, a bipartisan bill that requires operators of websites, online platforms and applications targeting students and their families (“Operators”) to…
WhatsApp ranked worst for users’ data privacy in internet snooping report
Andrew Griffin reports: People who are concerned about the government prying into their data should stay away from WhatsApp, Google and Microsoft and instead use Apple and Dropbox, according to a new report from privacy campaigners. A new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, called ‘Who Has Your Back?’, has ranked the biggest technology companies…
Court: Reveal anonymous commenter on website
AP reports: Comcast Cable Communications must identify an internet-service subscriber who posted an anonymous message suggesting a political candidate molests children, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday, affirming a lower court opinion. […] The Comcast subscriber whose name must be revealed commented on a 2011 article in the Freeport Journal Standard about Bill Hadley’s candidacy…