WELCOME to Connected Rights, your rabbit in the headlights of digital rights news and analysis. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to a friend or get them to sign up. I'm David Meyer, aka @superglaze on Twitter and @davidmeyerwrites on Facebook. Don't forget to check out the Connected Rights website and download a copy of my book, Control Shift: How Technology Affects You and Your Rights. Swagatam! EVERY YEAR, … Continue reading Mark Zuckerberg’s suspicious challenge
Facebook may get a big breach fine, but probably not $1.63 billion
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your blessing in the disguise of digital rights news and analysis. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to a friend or get them to sign up. I'm David Meyer, aka @superglaze on Twitter and @davidmeyerwrites on Facebook. Don't forget to check out the Connected Rights website and download a copy of my book, Control Shift: How Technology Affects You and … Continue reading Facebook may get a big breach fine, but probably not $1.63 billion
“Democracy needs resistance” – the ePrivacy reform is in trouble
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your ham in the slow cooker of digital rights news and analysis. A NEW EU LAW COVERING THE PRIVACY OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS appears to have stalled in the legislative process. The Council of the EU, currently led by the Austrians under a rotating presidency, is supposed to figure out a common position … Continue reading “Democracy needs resistance” – the ePrivacy reform is in trouble
Tech’s perversion of the democratic process
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your gambol through the wheat fields of digital rights news and analysis. FACEBOOK WILL INCUR THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE FINE in the UK over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) announced today. That fine is only £500,000, because the incident happened in the pre-GDPR days, but it's still not a … Continue reading Tech’s perversion of the democratic process
Microsoft’s big email privacy fight is over
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your twist in the sobriety of digital rights news and analysis. MICROSOFT AGREES WITH THE US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT that their epic battle over user privacy, as it relates to emails stored on overseas servers, should be scrapped. The argument is now moot, after president Trump signed a new law (supported by Microsoft) … Continue reading Microsoft’s big email privacy fight is over
Germany’s anti-digital-rights chief is finally gone
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your knock at the door of digital rights news and analysis. FAREWELL THEN, HEIKO MAAS. Germany's erstwhile justice minister is off to become foreign minister in the new coalition government: http://bit.ly/2p6A3SO While Maas's opposition to far-right extremism is an obvious plus, from a digital rights perspective it's nonetheless good riddance. Maas was … Continue reading Germany’s anti-digital-rights chief is finally gone
That ‘nationalised 5G’ proposal was pretty terrifying
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your tin can on the string of digital rights news and analysis. THE US NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL'S "NATIONALISED 5G" PROPOSAL got a brutal kicking from just about everyone when it was leaked to the media. The trial balloon – if that's what it was – did after all talk about having the … Continue reading That ‘nationalised 5G’ proposal was pretty terrifying
An Uber-bad way to handle a data breach
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your twist in the tale of digital rights news and analysis. UBER HAS DEMONSTRATED PRECISELY WHAT NOT TO DO when a major data breach happens. Yesterday, the company confessed that around a year ago it paid off hackers who had stolen the personal information of 57 million Uber users and drivers around … Continue reading An Uber-bad way to handle a data breach
America is starting to get why data protection is so important
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your shot in the arm of digital rights news and analysis. A slightly longer newsletter than usual today, but there's a lot to discuss. Here goes… THE EQUIFAX DATA LEAK is what can mostly politely be termed as an omnishambles. Hackers made off with the personal information of 143 million Americans, and … Continue reading America is starting to get why data protection is so important
Trump’s government vs online privacy
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your finger on the trigger of digital rights news and analysis. DONALD TRUMP'S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT has gone after a US web host, Dreamhost, in an attempt to identify the many visitors to an anti-Trump website that uses the company's servers: http://for.tn/2w6AwJL Dreamhost is fighting the DOJ's efforts to seize its records for … Continue reading Trump’s government vs online privacy