Why do people usually use a VPN connection over the Internet? Usually it is for added security and privacy. What if a VPN offered security, but even less privacy than without it – would you use it? Well some people are and probably do not even know it. In 2013 Facebook bought an Israeli company, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably remember when then Austrian law student Max Schrems started fighting a battle over privacy with Facebook. Now probably neither you nor I would want to pick a fight with Facebook’s legal team, but Max, a law STUDENT, said, hey, what the heck. That battle wound up at the CJEU – The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As many people expected, the European Court Of Justice, the highest court controlling European Union law, ruled in favor of Max Schrems and said that the Safe Habor Agreement, negotiated between the United States and the European Union in the mid 1990s is invalid and does not provide EU citizens with the protections mandated by […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In March I wrote about Max Schrems one man war against Facebook and their privacy-stealing policy (see post here). He originally went to the Irish data protection commissioner but withdrew that complaint after it became clear that nothing would get resolved in that venue for years. Then he went to the Vienna District Court saying […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An upstate NY State woman sued the DEA for creating a fake Facebook profile of her, using pictures of her young son and niece as well as suggestive pictures of her to try and lure drug dealers (see link and picture below). Authorities had taken her phone after she was arrested for her role in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI is warning people to be wary of fake federal web sites which both take their PII and also steal money from them. The web sites rank high on the search engine page, ask for PII and collect a fee. Sometimes they ask people to send their birth certificate or other information. People are […]
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