Surveillance powers will help to unmask online bullies
Police are to use sweeping new surveillance powers to unmask anonymous internet bullies and bring them to justice. A new power that forces internet …
Saudis to sue Twitter user who called poet’s death sentence ‘ISIS-like’
Saudi Arabia’s justice ministry plans to sue a Twitter user who compared the death sentence handed down on Friday to a Palestinian poet to …
France tells Google to remove ‘Right to be forgotten’ search results worldwide
France’s privacy regulator has rejected Google’s request that it just forget about a ruling extending the “right to be forgotten” to all Google’s websites, …
EU steps (marginally, tentatively) towards new data protection law
European ministers are expected to reach some sort of agreement on new data protection laws later today, according to reports and sources, although discussions …
Google rejecting 59 percent of right-to-be-forgotten removal requests
It was a year ago Wednesday that the European Court of Justice ruled that search engines must remove links from their search results if …
Sen. Rand Paul: What You Discuss on Your Phone Is None of the Government’s Business
The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice I’ve long said what you discuss on your …
DOJ defends Clinton from email subpoena
The Justice Department is defending former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from a motion to subpoena her private emails under the Freedom of Information …
U.K. to make ‘revenge porn’ a crime
An update to existing law will make the practice of “revenge porn” illegal in Britain starting this spring. When passed, the law would specifically …
DOJ Pays $134,000 To Settle Case Of DEA Agents Impersonating A Woman On Facebook
Back in the fall, we wrote about how the DEA impersonated a woman on Facebook, even posting photographs of her young children (which they …
Revenge porn offenders to be charged with domestic abuse
Posting “revenge porn” on the internet to get back at a former spouse or partner could be considered a form of domestic abuse, under …
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