3News reports: An employer has admitted it breached the Privacy Act by accessing and distributing a former employee’s private Facebook photo of an obscenity-laced cake. Former New Zealand Credit Union (NZCU) employee Karen Hammond, made a cake iced with the words “Credit Union Baywide f**k you c***s”, to cheer up a friend who was leaving…
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Toledo Lawyer wins court challenge on Mug Shots
Kevin Milliken writes: Toledo attorney Scott Ciolek didn’t like what he saw on-line: mug shots of his clients in the court of public opinion, long before ever getting their own day in court. The long-storied notion of ‘innocent before proven guilty’ was getting stomped for profit. […] The Toledo attorney filed the original suit in 2012 on…
Privacy advocates unmask Twitter troll
Tom Fox-Brewster reports: What happens when you troll Tor developers hard? You get unmasked. Towards the end of last week, a troll who had sent various aggressive tweets to a host of security experts and privacy advocates associated with the Tor project and browser, which enables online anonymity, had his identity exposed. To some, that may seem…
Are MOOC-Takers ‘Students’? Not When It Comes to the Feds Protecting Their Data
Steve Kolowich writes: The U.S. Education Department wants to encourage colleges and the tech companies they work with to protect student data from misuse. But the agency’s power to protect the privacy of people taking free, online courses is essentially nonexistent. “Data in the higher-education context for MOOCs is seldom Ferpa-protected,” Kathleen Styles, the Education…