South Korea has become a global center for digital sex crimes as cases of illegal filming and distribution of images rose to 7,000 in 2020, up 70% from 2019
Digital Sex Crimes in South Korea … Summary Tweets: Chris Hoofnagle / @hoofnagle : FT: “In one case, Lee Ye-rin* discovered a clock given as a gift by an employer had been streaming footage from insid...
Sources: Apple sends cease and desist emails to Chinese apps testing CAID, which is designed to track users in spite of Apple's upcoming IDFA privacy changes
Earlier this week, Patrick McGee and Yuan Yang explained … Tweets: Lara O'Reilly / @larakiara : Apple has begun warning developers against trying to get around its new app privacy rules, @FT reports. ...
Banks hope to persuade Biden admin that Big Tech and fintech startups should not be able to offer services that compete with banks without facing the same rules
Banks see a chance to direct tougher regulation against Facebook, Google and fintechs — Wall Street executives see the prospect … Tweets: @hoofnagle , @richardturrin , and @financialtimes Tweets: Ch...
DHS' IG says it's probing the department's practice of tracking people without a warrant by buying brokered cellphone data, after Democratic senators' request
a contractor that works with ICE—obtains location data from apps. Names the middlemen companies that feed the data. Unclear if ICE gets all data from this chain, but certainly Venntel gets it https://...
China proposes an internet architecture called New IP to UN's ITU; critics say its top-down design would give governments granular control over the internet
New architecture would enable cutting-edge technologies but western countries fear more control for state-run internet services Tweets: @martinsfp , @bakerluke , @amir , @jgriffiths , @madhumita29 , @...
EU antitrust regulator launches preliminary investigations into how Google and Facebook gather, process, use, and monetize data for advertising purposes
drumbeats are again building for #antitrust officials to take a closer look at Big Tech's use of data. Here's what's at stake https://www.politico.eu/.... But if you think this will be a slamdunk case...
Researchers: many smart TVs and streaming dongles from Roku, Samsung, Amazon and others are sending user data to companies like Netflix, Microsoft, and Facebook
even what you buy in stores. It's as if your TV can unhook itself from the wall and follow you around.” —@geoffreyfowler https://twitter.com/... @dhh : Oh great. Facebook Google, et al are spying on y...