Jeff Kosseff, Meena Harris, and Caleb Skeath have a really nice recap of the year. It begins: Data Breaches Studies show increase. Amidst a flurry of high-profile breaches during 2014, several studies confirmed that data breaches as a whole have risen significantly over the past few years. The California Attorney General released a study showing…
Category: Online
Goodbye Internet Anonymity: Swedish Tabloids Publically Shame Forum Users
Sputnik reports: The Swedish tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet has found itself in the center of a fiery debate on freedom of anonymous speech after publishing the identities of several users of the popular internet forum Flashback, including those of several political and public figures, after finding comments they deemed to be inappropriate. Read more on Sputnik.
Italian university to give trans students option of ‘aliases’ to protect privacy
An Italian university has announced that it plans to give transgender students the option of using an online ‘alias’ to borrow books from the library or register for exams. The Naples Federico II University said students would be able to use the aliases to avoid having their privacy violated. Read more on Pink News.
WhatsApp spy tool lets anyone track when you’re online
Lisa Vaas reports: Just a few weeks after WhatsApp was found to be flashing photos that users weren’t supposed to see, we’ve got another privacy glitch: this time, it looks like changing your privacy settings doesn’t stop people from tracking your status and any changes you’ve made to profile photos, status messages and settings. This bug,…