The company has been ordered to remove any suggestions that violate the rules, by a German Court
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Silicon Valley tech firms, banks and other powerful industries are mounting a quiet but forceful campaign to kill an Internet privacy bill that would give California consumers the right to know how their personal information is being used.
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They want to cash in on non military domestic use. But both left and right fear for invasion of their privacy
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The police are increasingly using unmanned aircraft in their efforts to track down criminals in the Netherlands, leading to MPs’ questions about the privacy implications.
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European Parliament lawmakers voted on Wednesday (20 February) against mandatory fines of up to 2% of global turnover for companies caught breaching consumer privacy, potentially limiting the impact of new data protection rules on the internet.
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The ‘extreme-scale analytics’ program — called Riot, or Rapid Information Overlay Technology — has been created by Raytheon, the tech company specialising in defence and national security.
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Microsoft is under fresh pressure to disclose information about how confidential its Skype user data is. Microsoft is to consider the request.
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“…Even though the government has admitted that it has violated the Fourth Amendment at least once in its warrantless wiretapping, the outrage is limited to privacy and civil liberties circles precisely because the secrecy keeps the public from even knowing what these violations actually mean…”
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Federal prosecutors may introduce cell-site data obtained without a warrant in the retrial of a District of Columbia drug dealer who was the subject of one of the Supreme Court’s biggest electronic privacy decisions in decades.
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The new Y.2770 standard is entitled “Requirements for deep packet inspection in Next Generation Networks”, and seeks to define an international standard for deep packet inspection (DPI).
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