Wendy Davis reports: Advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center is asking an appellate court to revive a lawsuit accusing Google and Viacom of violating a federal video privacy law. The dispute centers on allegations that Viacom allowed Google to set tracking cookies on the kids’ site Nick.com. Read more on Media Post.
Category: Online
Canada poised to pass anti-terror legislation despite widespread outrage
John Barber reports: Widespread protest and souring public opinion has failed to prevent Canada’s ruling Conservative Party from pushing forward with sweeping anti-terror legislation which a battery of legal scholars, civil liberties groups, opposition politicians and pundits of every persuasion say will replace the country’s healthy democracy with a creeping police state. Read more on The Guardian.
Anonymity App Secret Says Goodbye
Rachel Metz reports: Secret, an app that lets users share anonymous confessions with others, is no more. In a piece posted on Medium Wednesday, Secret cofounder David Byttow said that after less than a year and a half of availability, the app would be shuttered and money returned to investors; the reason, he said, is that Secret…
IN: TRAI betrays privacy
The editors of the Deccan Chronicle in India address a breach noted earlier this week on DataBreaches.net: In an appalling act of recklessness, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has compromised the privacy of over a million Internet users of the country by publishing online all the responses of their consultation paper on Net neutrality. Either the bureaucrats running Trai are ignorant…