Joke Bodewits of Hogan Lovells writes: Recently, new rules on cookies (all links in Dutch) came into force in the Netherlands. In addition, the Dutch Second Chamber approved a draft bill to introduce a mandatory data breach notification requirement and to strengthen the Dutch Data Protection Authority’s investigative and fining powers. The new rules apply to all companies acting…
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Twitter’s new Periscope app takes a user privacy hit
Lisa Vaas reports: Periscope, the live-streaming app that Twitter launched just last Thursday, has already had its first privacy pratfall. The glitch happens if a user forgets to turn off the Twitter button before broadcasting a private video stream, thereby meaning that the title gets shared with all the user’s followers. Read more on Naked…
Some impressions on Internet advertiser security
This post also appears over at the Citizen Lab. Andrew Hilts writes: The conversation about web advertising security was recently invigorated by a blog post on the Internet Advertising Bureau’s website that called for the industry to broadly implement the HTTPS secure data transmission standard. The IAB post referred to a survey of its members in which “nearly…
Feds Demand Reddit Identify Users of a Dark-Web Drug Forum
Andy Greenberg reports: Over the last year, Reddit’s “dark net markets” discussion forum has grown into one of the central fixtures of the online drug scene. At any given moment, hundreds of redditors are browsing reddit.com/r/darknetmarkets, many brazenly discussing anonymous online sales on the open internet. Now the feds have noticed. And they’re telling Reddit to cough…