WELCOME to Connected Rights, your mote in the eye 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. 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. Dagos tabi! Apologies for … Continue reading R.I.P Giovanni Buttarelli
The future of EU-US data transfers is on the line
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your hearing in the court 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. Ahlan wa … Continue reading The future of EU-US data transfers is on the line
Turns out the adtech industry isn’t obeying privacy law!
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your pop in the stock 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. ǁKhoreǁhare! STOP … Continue reading Turns out the adtech industry isn’t obeying privacy law!
Russia keeps finding new ways to kill online freedom
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your clause in the contract 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. Tatawaw! THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT … Continue reading Russia keeps finding new ways to kill online freedom
So much for Facebook’s transparency drive
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your candle in the pumpkin 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. Bem-vindos! FACEBOOK HAS MADE … Continue reading So much for Facebook’s transparency drive
Time for Google to come clean about China
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your chip off the old block 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 … Continue reading Time for Google to come clean about China
Time to take on a new anti-encryption law
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your bird on the wire of digital rights news and analysis. IT'S FINALLY BOILING OVER DOWN UNDER: the government of Malcolm "The Laws of Mathematics Are Very Commendable" Turnbull has unveiled its Assistance and Access Bill 2018, to combat the terrible threat posed by encrypted communications. The bill would allow new types … Continue reading Time to take on a new anti-encryption law
Good Apple
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your journey through the looking-glass of digital rights news and analysis. APPLE HAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE NEXT VERSION OF SAFARI will tell users when third parties are trying to track them through things like "like" and "share" buttons, and give them a simple way to block the tracking. And which tracker did … Continue reading Good Apple
What we can learn from Facebook’s stack of lawsuits
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your penny in the tip jar of digital rights news and analysis. FACEBOOK IS GETTING SUED A LOT right now. There's a bunch of suits over its data protection failings, associated with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Then there's a putative class action over its scraping of call and SMS logs from Android … Continue reading What we can learn from Facebook’s stack of lawsuits
Finally, a country’s citizens get to have their say on mass surveillance
WELCOME to Connected Rights, your shot in the dark of digital rights news and analysis. THE DUTCH PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET A MASS SURVEILLANCE REFERENDUM, probably next March. The country has a law that says if people can gather 300,000 valid signatures calling for a poll on an issue, they get their referendum. And that's … Continue reading Finally, a country’s citizens get to have their say on mass surveillance
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