Seth Fiegerman reports: Better late than never. Reddit, the popular social news service, issued new digital privacy guidelines on Tuesday firmly prohibiting sexually explicit images posted without the user’s position. “No matter who you are, if a photograph, video, or digital image of you in a state of nudity, sexual excitement, or engaged in any act of…
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The Latest Privacy Risk? Looking Up Medical And Drug Information Online
Neil Ungerleider reports: If you have cancer, HIV, diabetes, lupus, depression, heart disease—or you simply look up health-related information online—advertisers are watching you. A new paper on what happens when users search for health information online shows that some of our most sensitive internet searches aren’t as anonymous as we might think. Marketers care very much about…
Digital Rights Group And ISPs Bring Legal Challenge Against New French Surveillance Law
Glyn Moody writes: As we’ve been reporting, seemingly hopeless legal challenges to UK surveillance have already notched up two wins, and revealed previously secret details about what has been going on. Now the French digital rights group La Quadrature du Net (LQDN) is taking the same approach in France: Together with FFDN, a federation of community-driven non-profit…
New ‘Hello Barbie’ Wi-Fi Enabled Barbie That Records Conversations And Talks Back To Kids Has The Internet Up In Arms
Inquisitr reports: A new Wi-Fi enabled Barbie called “Hello Barbie” has the internet talking, after Hello Barbie was revealed this week by Mattel, and joined the “internet of things” trend that makes just about everything from toys to cars to toasters and SUVs a mobile hotspot. But the features that have consumers buzzing about “Hello Barbie” is…