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Privacy Plight: Apple’s Proposed Changes & Consumer Pushback

IPilogue

In August, Apple made headlines by introducing new privacy features in their upcoming software updates. Over the years, Apple has cultivated a strong reputation as a protector of consumer privacy. One of their core values and popular marketing point s is that “privacy is a fundamental human right.”

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Kim Dotcom Denied Leave to Appeal High Court’s Dismissal of His Appeal Against Human Rights Tribunal Decision

TorrentFreak

For Dotcom, information has proven to be a valuable and flexible commodity; in 2015 he made dozens of requests to numerous government departments to gain what he described as ‘urgent’ access to information to assist in his looming extradition defense. All that remained was to determine the scale of Dotcom’s damages award.

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AI and Fair Use: Navigating Legal Challenges in India and the United States

IIPRD

2015) [1] is one of the most cited cases in this context. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 provides for the laws related to data privacy and some form of regulation. 2015) [2] Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Image Sources: Shutterstock] Authors Guild v. Google, Inc. 1] Authors Guild v. Google, Inc.,

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Kevin Kruse Cleared of Plagiarism Though Questions Remain

Plagiarism Today

At that time, Kruse was facing allegations that he had committed plagiarism, first in his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University and later in his 2015 book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. They have obligations to both student and employee privacy that has to be maintained.

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The Current State of Cross-Border Data-Transfers

IPilogue

In 2015, Austrian law student and privacy activist, Maximillian Schrems, sued Facebook Ireland for what he alleged to be an unlawful transfer of data from Facebook Ireland to Facebook’s headquarters in the United States. Compelled to revise his challenge in 2015, Schrems alleged that contractual arrangements in the U.S.

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I2P: The Censorship Resistant Anonymous P2P Network is 20 Years Old

TorrentFreak

In that environment, a young developer named Lance James pondered the implications of increased online ‘monitoring’ on the privacy of law-abiding citizens. “The need for privacy and security tools has grown remarkably in 20 years. 2015 Hacklab Toronto Presentation.

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The Pirate Bay Switches to a Brand New V3 Onion Domain

TorrentFreak

onion domains has been in the works since 2015. There is not really much of a privacy advantage for people who use Pirate Bay’s.onion domain to download torrents. The switchover to the more secure v3.onion The Pirate Bay is relatively late to the party, but it eventually made the change a few days ago.

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