Didi Rankovic reports: Tutanota, a German open-source, end-to-end encrypted email service, is experiencing difficulties in Egypt, the company has announced. […] Regardless of Egypt’s history of restricting or blocking access to internet services, as well as introducing blackouts as a method of controlling the spread of information, Tutanota said it [Read More…]
Jeff Kosseff, who has a book about Section 230 that more people need to read, writes: When I started writing a book about an arcane internet law more than three years ago, I never could have predicted the controversy that I would encounter. My book, The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet, tells [Read More…]
John McCarthy reports: Ad industry executives have hit out at Twitter after it admitted it “may have… inadvertently” used sensitive information given by users for security purposes to also help target advertising. […] Neville Doyle, chief strategy officer at Town Square, suggested it was “enormously improbable” that Twitter ‘inadvertently’ improved [Read More…]
Masha Borak reports: Since my personal information has been posted online, I get a lot of hidden phone calls,” said David, a victim of Hong Kong’s recent doxxing boom. David, an alias used to avoid bringing further unwanted attention, had his private information leaked on a website that targets Hong [Read More…]