X sues the Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging CCDH researchers violated Twitter's terms of service and the CFAA while studying hate speech on the site
X sues the Center for Countering Digital Hate, alleging that researchers violated its terms of service and the CFAA while studying hate speech on the platform
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, sued a research group that had investigated hate speech on the social media platform …
In a policy shift, the US Department of Justice plans to stop prosecuting good-faith security research that would have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
to choose not to prosecute security research as a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. “The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not be charged.” https:...
A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline
They're Blaming Amazon Instead Alison Durkee / Forbes : Parler Sues Amazon After Company Forces Social Media Site Offline Bernard Meyer / CyberNews : Data collection cheat sheet: how Parler, Twitter, ...
SCOTUS worries about CFAA's sweeping nature, with Justice Gorsuch saying that the US government's view of the law risks “making a federal criminal of us all”
The Supreme Court on Monday indicated serious reservations about the ambiguity and scope of the nation's only major cybercrime law …
Facebook files lawsuits in the US and Europe against developers it alleges scraped user data, as the company increasingly turns to lawsuits to stop data abuses
I'd appreciate your input on this! Facebook claims he violated CFAA because he used those ~5,500 login credentials without authorization. But if these customers gave permission for him to use it, is t...
A look at Clearview AI, a facial recognition app claiming it scraped 3B+ images from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and that 600+ law enforcement agencies use it
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : FBI in Possession of Software Able to Profile Anyone Using Just a Picture Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1225: the facial ...
Facebook says it unintentionally collected email contacts of 1.5M users who used email password verification, will notify affected users and delete contacts
the data was also utilised to “improve ads.” Rob Price / @robaeprice : SCOOP: Facebook harvested 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent. It says it “unintentionally uploaded” them a...
DOJ charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for allegedly assisting Chelsea Manning in an attempt to crack a DOD password
& apparently unsuccessful — attempt to crack a password *after* “Manning had already provided Wikileaks with hundreds of thousands of classified records.” pic.twitter.com/FifCMKxX1T Susan Hennessey / ...
Behind the debate on whether the CFAA should be amended to allow private companies and citizens that are victims of cybercrimes to “hack back”
American companies that fall victim to data breaches want to retaliate against the culprits. But can they do so without breaking the law? Tweets: @hatr , @ericgeller , and @malwaretechblog Tweets: @h...