Venkat Balasubramani writes: Plantiffs are trying to unmask Twitter users who make derogatory posts about the plaintiff corporate entities and their CEO. (Initial blog post about the case filing here.) They filed suit in the Western District of Washington, and sought and were granted permission to conduct early discovery. They then issued subpoenas to Twitter, seeking…
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Banning Tor is bad form and impossible, says UK parliament tech group
Dave Neal reports: A study in the UK Parliament looking into whether David Cameron’s plans to ban encryption are sound has found that they are not. The study was carried out by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, and looked into how the darknet, or Tor, and online anonymity is being used. The Darknet and Online Anonymity report (PDF)…
Verizon, Cisco, Microsoft And Others Pull The Plug On Default Encryption In HTTP/2
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…
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 —…