You may not be familiar with the religious terms, but you’ll understand the issue. Shafiqah Othman writes: It was early in the morning and I had already received some appalling news from a good friend of mine. The administrators of her university had hauled her in to say they had monitored her Twitter and Facebook…
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Austrian student’s lawsuit vs Facebook bogged down in procedure
Shadia Nasralla and Angelika Gruber report: Facebook presented a long list of procedural objections to an Austrian court on Thursday trying to halt a class action lawsuit for 25,000 users that accuses the social media giant of violating their privacy. The first day of hearings began with a four-hour session in which Facebook’s lawyers tried to convince the…
SG: Singtel receives court order to release some 150 customer details
Irene Tham reports: Out of more than 500 people who allegedly downloaded Oscar-winning film Dallas Buyers Club illegally over the Internet, more than 150 subscribed to Singtel. In a statement this afternoon, Singtel said that it has now been issued a formal court order, which compels the Internet service provider (ISP) by law to disclose…
Google bans 200 dodgy extensions for data snooping
Yesterday, this site had noted a report from ScrapeSentry about an extension that appeared problematic to them. Now Nicole Kobie reports: Google has yanked 200 extensions from the Chrome store, after they were revealed to be stealing sensitive data from millions of users. The move follows two reports about browser extensions, the small, often free tools that can…