Lucian Armasu reports: The HTTP/2 standard, the successor to HTTP/1.1, has recently been finalized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and now all browsers and servers are free to use it. The HTTP/2 protocol initially started as a Google project called SPDY, which was encrypted by default, and it later entered the standardization process…
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Va. Legislation Seeks to Protect Digital Privacy After Death
CBS News reports: Does a person’s right to privacy extend past death? In this digital age, yes, according to legislation passed by the 2015 General Assembly — the first of its kind in the country. The Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act aims to assure that a person’s electronic footprint remains off-limits after death —…
A New Bill in Paraguay Would Destroy Online Privacy
Katitza Rodriguez writes: Today, the Paraguayan House of Representatives postponed for eight days a mandatory data retention proposal. The bill, if passed, will require Paraguayan telecom providers to store highly personal information about their customers Internet use, for one year, for possible future access by law enforcement agencies. The bill was introduced last year under the flimsy pretext that…
Vagina pic triggers landmark case against Facebook in France
Although it’s a lawsuit against Facebook about speech, there are significant implications for privacy complaints in a precedential case to be decided today in France. The Local (France) reports: The case was brought by a Frenchman who was incensed that his pic of a famous nude oil painting was taken offline by Facebook. Everything kicked off when a…