Mark Sherman of AP reports: The Supreme Court is intervening in a digital-age privacy dispute between the Trump administration and Microsoft over emails stored abroad. The justices say Monday they will hear the administration’s appeal of a lower court ruling in favor of Microsoft. The court held the emails sought [Read More…]
Peter Bright reports: The lack of clear information about what Microsoft does with the data that Windows 10 collects prevents consumers from giving their informed consent, says the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA). As such, the regulator says that the operating system is breaking the law. To comply with the [Read More…]
Perhaps someone at Gizmodo thought this would be a great attention-getter of a headline. And maybe they’re right as far as that goes, but this is not about Facebook outing sex workers. It’s about Facebook being able to make connections – and expose connections – that perhaps you do not [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic writes: Recently, Walmart shocked privacy conscious Americans by announcing they wanted customers to let Walmart employees inside their homes. Then…. Three days ago, Amazon shocked privacy conscious Americans by announcing that they also want to deliver packages inside peoples homes and cars. Who wouldn’t want to let two [Read More…]