Liam Day reports: For the teachers, it began in October at the California Teachers Association’s 2021 LGBTQ+ Issues Conference. Lori Caldeira and Kelly Baraki explained how they identified potential new members of UBU, the school’s club of LGBTQ supporters. “When we were doing our virtual learning—we totally stalked what they were doing on Google, when…
Category: Online
Facebook (Meta) agrees to pay $90 million to settle lawsuit over Facebook tracking users’ online activity
Claire Duffy reports: Facebook (FB)-parent Meta has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old class action lawsuit over a practice that allowed the social network to track users’ activity across the internet, even if they had logged out of the platform. […] The settlement applies to US Facebook users who had an account between April 22,…
Twitter cans 2FA service provider over surveillance claims
MalwareBytes Labs writes: Twitter is transitioning away from from its two-factor authentication (2FA) provider, Mitto AG, a Swiss communications company. The social media giant broke the news to US Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. It is noted that Twitter’s decision to move away from Mitto AG came after allegations that its co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Ilja…
Article: Race and Online Privacy
Over on Public Citizen, Jeff Sovern points us to an article by Anita L. Allen of Penn, Dismantling the Black Opticon: Race Equity and Online Privacy and Data Protection Reform, forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal. Abstract In the opening decades of the 21st century popular online platforms rapidly transformed the world. These platforms have come with…