Dan Goodin reports: In the decade since larger-than-life character Kim Dotcom founded Mega, the cloud storage service has amassed 250 million registered users and stores a whopping 120 billion files that take up more than 1,000 petabytes of storage. A key selling point that has helped fuel the growth is an extraordinary promise that no top-tier Mega competitors…
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News items you might have missed
Here’s a smattering of news items compiled by Joe Cadillic: Activists Successfully Sue Marion County Sheriff for Illegally Sharing License Plate Reader Data: https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/06/activists-successfully-sue-california-sheriff-for-illegally-sharing-alpr-data/ EU Commission must withdraw new law to uphold online privacy, security and free expression – StateWatch https://www.statewatch.org/news/2022/june/european-commission-must-withdraw-new-law-to-uphold-online-privacy-security-and-free-expression/ ICE Searched LexisNexis Database Over a Million Times in Just 7 Months: https://theintercept.com/2022/06/09/ice-lexisnexis-mass-surveillances/ Delta’s…
Joe Cadillic’s MassPrivateI has moved — change your bookmarks
Joe writes: Last week, I received a notice that my weekly Privacy/Civil Rights links from May 16th, 2022 was banned for violating Google’s “Community Guidelines”. I don’t know exactly what news link or links in his post they think violated their guidelines, and it seems Joe doesn’t either because Google banned an entire post full…
UK: Genetic paparazzi are right around the corner, and courts aren’t ready to confront the legal quagmire of DNA theft
Liza Vertinsky and Yaniv Heled write: Every so often stories of genetic theft, or extreme precautions taken to avoid it, make headline news. So it was with a picture of French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin sitting at opposite ends of a very long table after Macron declined to take a Russian PCR COVID-19 test. Many speculated that Macron…