If you are a regular reader, you likely noticed that since yesterday, my sites have been 404 at times. At first, I thought I broke something, because I am truly quite capable of breaking things. But then the sites came back… and stayed up.. until today, when they went down again. Firewall logs show a…
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PogoWasRight.org is 15 Today – Wow!
PogoWasRight.org turns 15 today. Since its cyberbirth, there have been almost 40,000 posts about privacy news and issues. The first 20,000 posts are archived offline for now, but are preserved as part of a history of the evolution of privacy laws and issues. And in addition to this site’s 40,000 posts, there are almost 30,000…
Italy’s privacy regulator creates emergency channel to report revenge porn and to seek its blocking
The following is a translation of an important notice from the Italian guarantor: Against revenge porn, one of the most hateful forms of violence against women and, more generally, against non-consensual pornography, the Guarantor for the protection of personal data has decided to make an emergency channel available on its site. People who fear that their…
EPIC Gives International Privacy Award to Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) and Shyam Divan
From EPIC.org: EPIC presented the 2021 International Privacy Champion Awards to Justice K.S. Puttaswamy, retired Justice of the Kamataka High Court and lead plaintiff in the case that established the constitutional right to privacy in India and challenged the country’s mandatory biometric data collection program Aadhaar, and Senior Advocate Shyam Divan who was the lead…