privacy
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PublishedOctober 16, 2019
Your smartphone selfies could tell stalkers where you live
In a recent incident, a man stalking a Japanese pop star found out where she lives using her social media photos and Google Street View.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2019
Insight: Dictators and the internet: A love story
Instead of making censorship obsolete, the internet has given authoritarian regimes a powerful tool to crush dissent.
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PublishedAugust 8, 2019
Commentary: Data privacy laws could make criminal justice system even more unfair
As written, these regulations give police access to useful information while keeping it out of defendants' reach.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2019
Capital One data breach compromises 100 million credit card applications
In an unusual development, a suspect is already in FBI custody, apparently because she boasted online about what she had done.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2019
FTC approves $5 billion settlement with Facebook over privacy practices
The deal could result in broad consequences, including Facebook having to keep closer watch over third-party apps, and more government oversight.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2019
Our View: Searches show how privacy laws have fallen behind
Federal investigators accessed hundreds of millions of photos from databases, just the latest example of how privacy rights are eroding.
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PublishedJune 27, 2019
Zuckerberg invites regulators to help Facebook protect elections
In a discussion at Harvard Law School, the Facebook CEO invited regulators to set industrywide privacy standards and take a harder line with foreign interference in elections.
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PublishedMay 29, 2019
Lawmakers move to pass nation’s strictest internet privacy law
The Maine House follows the Senate in supporting a bill that would prohibit internet service providers from selling customers' data without their consent.
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PublishedMay 26, 2019
Maine schools grapple with opening bathroom doors to deter trouble-makers
Students want privacy. Schools want to keep kids from doing things they shouldn't behind closed doors.
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PublishedMay 24, 2019
Commentary: Maine should have single set of rules governing online privacy
L.D. 946 covers only internet service providers, leaving customers' data open to exploitation by search engines and social media.
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