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Britain to monitor communications of all its citizens

The British government is to give intelligence services the right to monitor the electronic communications of every person in the United Kingdom, and do so without a warrant. The UK Home Office has said that it is considering changing the legislation as to allow all phone calls, e-mails, text messages and Internet use to be
April 11, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Digital Advertising Alliance announces tools for online advertising control

The American Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has announced it is working on providing tools to allow US-based internet users to opt out of being tracked in online behavioral advertising (OBA). The DAA expects that within nine months users will be able to control OBA tracking via HTTP headers sent by their web browser. Read more
March 15, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Google’s new privacy policy not in compliance with EU law

The French data protection authority CNIL, tasked by EU privacy watchdogs to investigate Google’s new privacy policy has found that the policy does not seem to be in compliance with EU data protection legislation.
February 29, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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European Court of Justice to examine ACTA

The European Commission has asked the European Court of Justice is to examine whether ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is incompatible with the European Union’s fundamental rights and freedoms, the EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has announced.
February 22, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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European Court of Justice rules against anti-piracy filter

The European Court of Justice has ruled that a social network cannot be made to install an anti-piracy filtering system.The judgment comes after SABAM, a Belgian institution that manages the copyright of  Belgian writers and composers wanted Netlog, a Belgian social networking website with some 94 million registered international users, to install a filtering system
February 20, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Google refuses EU data protection authorities’ request for a pause in the implementation of new privacy policy

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, a group of 27 national data protection and privacy authorities that advises the European Commission on privacy issues, has written to Google Inc. to ask for a pause in the implementation of Google’s new privacy policy while the group checks for possible consequences for Google’s users in the
February 7, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Saturday is Data Privacy Day

Tomorrow, Saturday January 28 2012 is the annual Data Privacy Day.
January 27, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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European data protection rules to be reformed

The European Commission has proposed a reform of European data protection rules in order to strengthen online privacy rights, as the current EU data protection legislation from 1995 does not take into account the technological progress of recent years.
January 27, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Protests against ACTA in Poland

Approximately 10,000 people have taken to the streets across Poland in protest of the Polish government’s intention to sign ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, reports the BBC.
January 26, 2012 Comment (1) Share
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European privacy advocates warn about the use of ‘cookies’ in behavioural advertising

European privacy advocates have expressed their criticism of the advertising industry’s self-imposed code on behavioural advertising, especially in relation to the tracking of online browsing habits via the use of ‘cookies’.
December 27, 2011 Comments (0) Share