This sounds like it should be fiction. Scary nightmare-inducing fiction. NHK reports: A man who attacked a woman working as a so-called idol reportedly located her home by using an image reflected in her eyes in a photo on social media. Twenty-six-year-old Hibiki Sato was indicted on Tuesday for attacking [Read More…]
Eric Goldman writes: This is a story of four teenage girls and one teenage boy. The girls use the aliases “7Up” (a/k/a JP, the defendant in this case), “Lady Gaga,” “Dream Ruiner,” and “Me.” The boy, called S, allegedly engaged in anti-social behavior towards some of the girls (pushing their [Read More…]
Jeremy Meisinger of Foley Hoag writes: On October 1, 2019, China’s new regulation to protect personal data related to children – called the “Measures on Online Protection of Children’s Personal Data” – went into effect. As we wrote in June, when a draft of the regulation was released by the Cyberspace Administration [Read More…]
Billie Thomson reports: China has stepped up its internet censorship by demanding its citizens pass a facial-recognition test to be able to use web services. People who want to have the internet installed at home or on their phones must have their faces scanned by the Chinese authority to prove their [Read More…]