Matthew Goldstein reports: A California law student and a Virginia man dated for about six months after meeting through an online dating service. The fallout from the breakup, however, has gone on far longer, as the former boyfriend faces federal criminal charges over posting nude selfies and a sexually explicit video of the woman on…
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Warnings Australian spy agency won’t delete retained data
Josh Taylor reports: The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is not required to delete data that it has obtained from telcos under the mandatory data-retention legislation, the inspector-general of Intelligence and Security has warned. Under the legislation, telecommunications companies will be required to retain a set of so-called metadata, not limited to but including call…
Facebook sex tape case has implications for privacy law in Australia
Michaela Whitboum reports: A West Australian woman has won almost $50,000 in compensation from an ex-boyfriend who posted sexually explicit videos and photos of her on Facebook, in a significant ruling on personal privacy law. Caroline Wilson, a fly-in, fly-out worker at Fortescue Metals Group’s Cloudbreak mine in the Pilbara, took her ex-boyfriend and former…
Student digital privacy protections welcomed by parents, teachers
Vikki Ortiz Healy reports: When Courtney Lorentz’s 6-year-old daughter brought home an iPad from school last fall, the Deerfield, Ill., mom wanted assurance that the thoughts, ideas and personal information her daughter typed into the device would not follow her for years to come – or be sold to marketing companies for a quick buck….