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The Dallas Buyers Club court ruling has serious implications for online privacy.
Technology violence is a term that encompasses all types of harassment and abuse that occurs online and serves to control or intimidate women in particular.
Police and spies’ calls for more powers should fall on deaf ears until they have learned the letter of the law.
Metadata is only the beginning. The Big Data trend means there’s a lot more information about us out there that can be tracked or monitored.
Avoiding the metadata retention laws and sending messages entirely privately is harder than it might seem.
There are still unanswered questions about the data retention bill, but it’s now too late to get answers before it is passed into law.
Social media companies and the law are both beginning to seriously combat revenge porn.
Committee report reveals ‘citizens dossiers’ feared but never admitted to have existed for decades.
There is only so much government and business can do to keep us safe online. Ultimately we need to take personal responsibility for how we use the internet.
As the Australian government pushes on with its data retention bill there are still questions about what safeguards and protections are in place, and a look at similar moves that have failed overseas.
The internet and social media has turned a private death into a very public one.
The endorsement of Australia’s data retention bill raises questions about why the reforms are being pushed now, when they had been resisted by others for so long.
What the experts think of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security’s report on the proposed metadata retention laws.
The Australian government’s meta data retention bill cares more about who you connect with than what services you may use. Yet many such online services may also be out of its reach.
After the European Court of Justice ruled that there was a “right to be forgotten” from Google’s search results, Google’s Advisory Council embarked on a roadshow aimed at debating the issue. While this…
Police and prosecutors in the UK are now equipped with a new criminal offence in order to tackle so-called revenge pornography – where typically an abusive or vengeful ex-partner distributes explicit sexual…
Did you recently buy a Samsung smart TV? If you are worried about privacy, you may be wondering how smart that decision was following the manufacturer’s warnings that its voice-activated televisions may…
Two years after Edward Snowden’s allegations concerning mass surveillance, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, the UK intelligence agencies complaints tribunal, has ruled that the manner in which the UK’s…
The Silk Road trial has concluded, with Ross Ulbricht found guilty of running the anonymous online marketplace for illegal goods. But questions remain over how the FBI found its way through Tor, the software…
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