Kristof Van Quathem, Alix Bertrand, and Nicholas Shepherd of Covington and Burling write: On March 2, 2022, following a fast-track legislative process in the French National Assembly and Senate, President Macron of France signed into law a new piece of legislation designed to reinforce parental controls over minors’ access to the Internet (the “Law”) (see…
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Weight Watchers App Illegally Gathered Data From Children, F.T.C. Says
Claire Fahy reports: WW International, the weight-loss organization formerly known as Weight Watchers, used an app to illegally collect personal information from children without their parents’ permission, the Federal Trade Commission said. A complaint filed Friday by the Justice Department on behalf of the commission said that WW and its pediatric weight-loss app, Kurbo, violated…
No reasonable expectation of privacy in Twitter account closed for violating TOS for child porn
Seen at FourthAmendment.com: Twitter deactivated defendant’s account for violation of its terms of service and reported him to NCMEC. Defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the files Twitter had preserved on him. “The Court finds under the circumstances of the case and in light of Twitter’s express zero tolerance policy for child sexual…
Russia’s social media ban followed by a spike in demand for VPNs
Obviously, this is not just a privacy issue at this point but also about being able to access sites and information that Russia is trying to shut down, but given Moscow police have also allegedly been seizing phones to read text messages, it would not be surprising for Russia to really start monitoring and arresting…