News Bites for April 9, 2015

April 9, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

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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Privacy

Max Schrems

March 15, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

That is a name that strikes fear into the hear of Facebook. He is an Austrian law student and privacy activist (see here and here). He sued Facebook saying that they violated European privacy laws and that the safe harbor that the EU gave US companies for protecting EU residents information is a sham and […]

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