Atualização (16/9/16): Deixamos mais claro que os usuários têm 30 dias depois de verem pela primeira vez a atualização da política de privacidade do WhatsApp para concordar ou não com seus termos. Também deixamos mais claro que contas criadas após… Read More ›
Archive for August 2016
Como Cambiar tu configuración de WhatsApp antes de que comience a compartir data con Facebook
Última modificación (12/9/16): Hemos aclarado que los usuarios tienen 30 días después de ver por primera la actualización de la política de privacidad de WhatsApp para aceptar o no estos términos. También hemos aclarado que, mientras que la nueva política… Read More ›
How to Change Your WhatsApp Settings Before Facebook Data Sharing Begins
WhatsApp’s plans to share user information—including phone numbers, contact lists, and usage data—with parent company Facebook threaten users’ privacy and control over their data. We describe details of this data sharing arrangement and the new privacy policy that makes it… Read More ›
O que os planos de compartilhamento de dados entre Facebook e WhatsApp significam para a privacidade do usuário
Atualização (16/9/16): Deixamos mais claro que os usuários têm 30 dias depois de verem pela primeira vez a atualização da política de privacidade do WhatsApp para concordar ou não com seus termos. Também deixamos mais claro que contas criadas após… Read More ›
Lo que los planes de uso compartido de información entre Facebook y WhatsApp significan realmente para la privacidad del usuario
Última modificación (12/9/16): Hemos aclarado que los usuarios tienen 30 días después de ver por primera vez la actualización de la política de privacidad de WhatsApp para aceptar o no esos términos. También hemos aclarado que las cuentas creadas después… Read More ›
What Facebook and WhatsApp’s Data Sharing Plans Really Mean for User Privacy
WhatsApp is establishing data-sharing practices that signal a significant shift in its attitude toward privacy—though you wouldn’t know it from the privacy policy update that popped up on users’ screens last week. The new policy lays the groundwork for alarming… Read More ›
Latest Leak Confirms European Copyright Plans Offer Little for Users
In our previous piece about a leaked European impact assessment on copyright, we described how the foreshadowed changes to European copyright law would place onerous new responsibilities on Internet platforms to scan your uploaded content on behalf of large entertainment… Read More ›
Obama Appoints Social Security Critic to Fix Puerto Rico’s Budget
Andrew Biggs, an American Enterprise Institute resident scholar and architect of conservative efforts to cut and privatize Social Security, has been named by President Obama to a seven-member fiscal oversight board for the debt-ridden U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. That… Read More ›
California Isn’t Sure How to Fix Sexual Assault Problem Without Adding to Mass Incarceration
The California legislature unanimously passed a bill Monday that would require prison time for anyone convicted of sexually assaulting someone who is unconscious or severely intoxicated. Lawmakers introduced the proposed bill in June, two weeks after former Stanford University student-athlete… Read More ›
Stupid Patent of the Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review
On August 30, 2016, the Patent Office issued U.S. Patent No. 9,430,468, titled; “Online peer review and method.” The owner of this patent is none other than Elsevier, the giant academic publisher. When it first applied for the patent, Elsevier… Read More ›