Wendy Davis reports: Google, Vibrant Media and WPP’s Media Innovation Group went beyond “routine commercial behavior” when they allegedly circumvented Safari users’ privacy controls in order to set tracking cookies, a group of consumers says in new court papers. “Rather than being consensual, these cookies were designed by the defendants to hack their way around…
Category: Online
Court Orders Twitter to Reveal Data on Handle’s ID
John Caher reports: A man falsely charged with posting an in-court photograph of a 12-year-old sexual assault victim is entitled to information that could identify the culprit who apparently assumed his identity and shared the picture on Twitter, a Brooklyn judge has held. Read more on New York Law Journal (subscription required).
Horizon: The defenders of anonymity on the internet
Mike Radford reports: Last year, the revelations of US security contractor Edward Snowden, suggested for the first time the extent to which governments were collecting and analysing our communications over the internet. But what Horizon reveals is that scientists are growing increasingly concerned about the way such information could be used to predict our behaviour…
Russia’s media regulator probes 2,500 websites for providing data on children
RAPSI reports that since May, when monitoring began, Russia’s telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor, has identified over 2,500 websites that provide personal data on children in violation of the law. Read more on RAPSI.