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Facebook sued for mining private messages – is online privacy really dead?

Facebook has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over claims it monitors its users' private messages, selling the data collected to advertisers.
January 13, 2014 Comment (1) Share
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Monthly Round Up: December 2013

In the news at the end of 2013: Europe to reduce air pollution, BEREC adopts its work programme for next year, we found out what we googled in 2013 and the percentage of European enterprises that use social media, and the world's leading technology companies unite to demand changes to US surveillance laws.
January 3, 2014 Comments (0) Share
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Google accused of unlawfully tracking users, wants to avoid UK courts

Google is arguing that a lawsuit over its British users’ privacy should be handled in US courts.
December 18, 2013 Comments (0) Share
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Today is International Human Rights Day: Internet and human rights

December 10 is International Human Rights day. The internet Society, an international, non-profit organization providing leadership in Internet policy has taken this opportunity to highlight the importance of the web in connection with human rights.
December 10, 2013 Comments (0) Share
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Monthly Round Up: November 2013

This month in the news: the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2012, net neutrality plans breach privacy rights, and the EU audiovisual sector attempts easier cross-border copyright.
December 2, 2013 Comments (0) Share
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Monthly Round Up: October 2013

Happened this October: ACER publishes its work programme 2014, The Economist says that Europe’s electricity providers are in trouble, the European Commission claims that there should be fewer telecoms markets in Europe, and we see how the world would look like if each country were as big as its amount of citizens with internet access.
October 29, 2013 Comments (0) Share
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Anonymous online comments the responsibility of website they are published on?

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a news website is responsible for its users’ defamatory comments. The judgement comes in the case of Delfi SA v. Estonia.
October 14, 2013 Comments (2) Share
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Monthly Round Up: September 2013

Spain really really does not like online piracy, Google knows everything you type into your smartphone, and Aphaia’s Boštjan Makarovič thinks that there is still a general lack of competitive market-based thinking amongst policy-makers in Slovenia – this month in the news.
October 1, 2013 Comment (1) Share
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Single EU telecoms market proposal ambitious, necessary, but probably not enough

The European Commission has adopted what it is calling its “most ambitious plan in 26 years of telecoms market reform”. The proposed revamp should see a reduction in consumer charges, and will simplify red tape faced by companies, bringing a range of new rights for both users and service providers. For more, see Aphaia's White
September 13, 2013 Comments (5) Share
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Monthly Round Up: August 2013

Facebook reveals requests for information about its users, while Gmail offers no privacy according to Google and online gaming can now get you a job. And don’t forget to protect your house lights from those pesky hackers!
August 30, 2013 Comments (0) Share