cyberstalking
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Supreme Court Ruling Will Make Online Harassment Harder to Prosecute
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court made prosecuting online harassment more difficult. In a 7-2 ruling on Tuesday, SCOTUS determined that a lower court’s decision to convict and imprison a Colorado man for stalking was flawed. The majority opinion in the case (Counterman v. Colorado), authored by Justice Elena Kagan, clarifies limits on what sorts…
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Google Bans Ads for Snooping Products and Services
Google’s banning ads for so-called “stalkerware“ apps, invasive programs largely associated with jealous exes or abusive partners to spy on another person without their authorisation. Though given that the online search giant already adopted a blanket ban against stalkerware apps in its Play Store, one has to wonder why such ads were still allowed to…
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Facebook Fired The Security Engineer Accused Of Abusing Their Access To Stalk Women Online
On Tuesday, Facebook said that it was investigating claims that one of its security engineers was using their data access privileges to stalk women online. Facebook has confirmed to Gizmodo that the employee has been fired.
