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Your (Updated) Privacy Policy Still Doesn't Cut It.

Max Schrems (pictured), the Austrian privacy activist and lawyer, has never been one to shrink from a major legal battle over privacy he challenged that too blasted an opening salvo over Silicon Valley The complaints he filed against Google and Facebook in four different countries could carry more than 8 billion euros in penalties the complaints take direct aim at the GDPR compliance efforts by these companies Schrems is saying that under the GDPR, that whole approach doesn't cut it users only had the choice to delete the account or hit the 'agree' button If he's right on the law—even a little bit—it makes me wonder if a lot of other companies' privacy policies are vulnerable Facebook chief privacy officer Erin Egan Hogan Lovells attorney Eduardo Ustaran ComputerWeekly >> Takeaway:  European Data Protection Board Max Schrems Photo: Lukas Beck 2014 (With Permission)

Now That's an Idea...

Hacker News put all his Facebook data up for sale on eBay “Everyone else's making money off it, so why shouldn't I?” the bidding

Who Can't Get Your Private Data?Criminal Defendants.

the California Supreme Court's decision last week Facebook v. Superior Court (Hunter): well, TBD nearly 60 pages to explain its reasoning Facebook, Instagram and Twitter data from a witness Section 2702 of the 1986 Stored Communications Act, To the extent the SCA impedes those rights, they maintain, the law should be declared unconstitutional. sent the case back down to the trial court with the directive that the parties suss out what they can find in the public data first cannot be resolved on this record >> Takeaway:  Riana Pfefferkorn of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.

Protocol: 'Sweeping' The Crypto Wild West

The Denver Post reports “Operation Cryptosweep.” “We have more investigations going,” Colorado Securities Commissioner Gerald Rome told the newspaper. May 21 press release The North American Securities Administrators Association, or NASAA. Its president, Joseph Borg, indicated the focus of the effort is on outright fraud schemes >> Think Ahead: 

Listen Up: Fear Not the Smart Contract

Aaron Wright Casey Kuhlman Stuart Popejoy Amir Azaran here Apple Podcasts Google Play Libsyn

Dose of Dystopia

read this her Amazon device picked up a private conversation with her husband and transmitted it to a random contact this explanation “Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like 'Alexa,'” Amazon said in a statement. “Then, the subsequent conversation was heard as a 'send message' request. At which point, Alexa said out loud 'To whom?' At which point, the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customer's contact list. Alexa then asked out loud, '[contact name], right?' Alexa then interpreted background conversation as 'right'. As unlikely as this string of events is, we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely.” Should Amazon be liable for apparent design flaws like this one, or are we responsible for inviting the listening devices into our homes?
That's it for this week. Watch what you say out there!