Right to Privacy vs. Right to be Forgotten In 2014, a European Court of Justice ruled that there is a right to be forgotten on the Internet. Essentially, searches can remove older information if – …the data appear to be inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which […]
Quinnipiac Assignment 12 – ICM 552 – Privacy and Big Data The Price of Handing Over an Email Address One of the best pieces of advice I ever got when I was first surfing the Internet and beginning to understand the online community was to get a private throwaway email address. The idea was to […]
Snapchat Settles with FTC over Privacy Issues Snapchat ends up settling with the FTC over privacy issues. The Boston Globe reported this year that the images being passed by the Snapchat app weren’t vanishing without a trace, as advertised. The temporal nature of its content proved extremely appealing to younger Internet users, and now it turns out […]