Salvador Rodriguez reports: In early 2018, a Facebook user made a public threat on the social network against one of the company’s offices in Europe. Facebook picked up the threat, pulled the user’s data and determined he was in the same country as the office he was targeting. The company [Read More…]
Jacqueline Howard reports: A pair of public health experts has called for Facebook to be more transparent in the way it screens posts for suicide risk and to follow certain ethical guidelines, including informed consent among users. The social media giant details its suicide prevention efforts online and says it [Read More…]
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UPDATE of Feb. 14: Hallelujah, common sense and privacy prevailed. Michael Geist tweets: Supreme Court of Canada overturns Court of Appeal in Jarvis with win for privacy – “students recorded by the accused were in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy” https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/17515/index.do — Michael Geist (@mgeist) [Read More…]
Tony Webster reports: The suspects in an Eden Prairie home invasion last October wore gloves, dressed in black, and covered their faces with masks. But despite their efforts to remain unseen, a trail of evidence was left behind — not at the crime scene, but with Google. Knowing the Silicon [Read More…]