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Critics of the high court’s decision not to hear the case say the justices have struck a blow against civil liberties.
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The case over the National Security Agency’s digital monitoring activities could have major implications for the future of government spying.
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Sen. Ron Wyden said privacy rules aren’t being followed, putting thousands of Americans at risk of having their most sensitive data exposed.
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It’s not the first time Biden has used executive authorities to push for privacy policies.
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The Biden administration is also scrambling to figure out how to secure reproductive data.
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Data collected by tech companies could be used to prosecute abortion seekers, they warn.
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The court dismissed LinkedIn’s arguments that it had put up “gates” in the form of technical measures to block scraping and legal action.
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Facebook filed a lawsuit against a Ukrainian man in a federal court Friday for allegedly using third-party services to gather information about 178 million users, then selling that information. Defendant Alexander Solonchenko is accused of using automated tools in 2018 and 2019 to retrieve information about users by looking up their phone numbers through Facebook’s Messenger Contact Importer. Solonchenko in 2020 started advertising the Facebook data for sale on RaidForum, a marketplace for data leaks where he had sold data from other private companies, the lawsuit says. He sold the data in 2021. The social media giant argues that Alexander Solonchenko violated Facebook’s terms of service by “using automated means…or attempt[ing] to access data you don’t have permission to access.” The company now is seeking an injunction preventing Solonchenko from accessing Facebook and its products as well as an injunction that would stop Solonchenko from selling or distributing any data […]
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This quarter’s edition of our legal update starts with a look at improving digital forensics experts’ credibility, as well as the reliability of the evidence they find — all while dealing with rapidly advancing technology Two recent academic pape… Continue reading Forensic Focus Legal Update July 2021: Reliability And Credibility Of Digital Evidence
The federal computer crime law makes it both a criminal offense and a civil offense (you can sue for damages or loss) for someone to “access a computer without authorization” or to “exceed authorized access” to a computer, and then do certain proscrib… Continue reading After Van Buren, are Data Scraping Cases Barred?