Hunton & Williams LLP writes: Eduardo Cunha, a congressman from the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party in Rio de Janeiro, recently introduced a new bill in Brazil that provides Brazilians with a right to be forgotten (PL 7881/2014). Rep. Cunha is one of the most influential congressmen in Brazil and has been reported likely to be…
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New cloud services centre in Germany ‘aims to address data protection concerns’
Out-Law.com reports: A data centre company has said that a German data centre that it operates can now connect privately to Amazon’s cloud services in a way that it says satisfies German and EU data protection laws. Equinix Inc has said an additional facility in Frankfurt is offering Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) ‘Direct Connect’ cloud…
EFF and ACLU of Tennessee Team Up to Challenge Unconstitutional School District Policy
Nate Cardozo and Jamie Lee Williams write: School districts across the country are grappling with how to deal with their students’ use of technology and social media. All too often, in an attempt to protect students, they end up implementing technology polices that give administrators too much power and go too far in restricting what…
Kickstarter suspends funding for Anonabox privacy router
Canoe reports: In light of doubts over certain claims, the crowdfunding platform has frozen the campaign for Anonabox, a small internet router designed to deliver online anonymity by encrypting data over the Tor network. The project had already brought in close to $600,000 in just a few days on the site. As funds poured in,…