Molly Quell reports: Austria was wrong to force a daily newspaper to hand over information about anonymous website commenters, Europe’s top rights court ruled Tuesday. The European Court of Human Rights sided with Der Standard, finding anonymous comments critical of politicians on the newspaper’s website were covered by freedom of expression. It says Austrian authorities were…
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FBI document shows what data can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps
Catalin Cimpanu recently reported: A recently discovered FBI training document shows that US law enforcement can gain limited access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services like iMessage, Line, and WhatsApp, but not to messages sent via Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat, or Wickr. The document, obtained earlier this month following a FOIA request…
What is the Online Privacy Act of 2021?
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: U.S. Congresswomen Anna Eshoo (D-California) and Zoe Lofgren (D-California) have reintroduced House Resolution 6027 for the Online Privacy Act of 2021. Some of the bill’s key differentiators from CCPA, CDPA and CPA: limitations on the disclosure of personal information to third parties that are not subject to the Act/jurisdiction…
Twitter will take down pictures of people posted without their permission.
A new policy may simultaneously please privacy advocates in principle while concerning civil libertarians and free speech advocates. Kate Conger reports: A sweeping expansion of Twitter’s policy against posting private information was met with backlash shortly after the company announced it on Tuesday, as Twitter users questioned whether the policy would be practical to enforce….