Colorado Will Set National Bar on Student Data Privacy Protection

Yesterday, on May 5th, the Colorado House unanimously passed House Bill 1423, which prohibits educational software and app developers from collecting data that can be be assembled and directly linked to an individual…

Suzzette Abbasciano

May 5, 2016

Brazil Putting Social Network Companies Through Hoops in Quests for Data

On Monday, May 2nd Brazil blocked WhatsApp service for a second time in a span of 6 months because the messaging service had not turned over data requested for a criminal investigation. Phone companies…

Suzzette Abbasciano

May 1, 2016

European Parliament Approves Enhanced Cyber Powers for Europol to Combat Terrorism and Crime

The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee granted Europol with the ability to set up specialized units to immediately respond to emerging threats, including…

Suzzette Abbasciano

Apr 27, 2016

Just Not Sports podcast Brings Attention to Online Harassment of Women through #MoreThanMean Campaign

Men were filmed reading aloud abusive tweets sent to sports journalists Sarah Spain (@SarahSpain) and Julie DiCaro (@JulieDiCaro). The campaign, conceived of…

Suzzette Abbasciano

Apr 26, 2016

Twitter Ups its Fight Against Online Harassment

To streamline the effort it takes users to report cases of abuse or harassment experienced on the micro-blogging platform, Twitter has engineered a way for users to report multiple abusive tweets at the same time. Prior to the April 25th…

Suzzette Abbasciano

Apr 26, 2016

Google Introduces Geo-Blocking to Further Protect Europeans’ Privacy

In response to France’s push for stricter search engine result compliance to their “right to be forgotten” privacy laws, Google has institute geo-blocking for an entire country’s access to blocked data. What does…