Surveillance-IT

Anonymous Linux Distribution TAILS Reaches Release Version 1.0

The OS that helped Edward Snowden communicate with journalists is ready for prime time

11 years ago

US Judge Orders Microsoft To Hand Over Dublin Data To Cops

Microsoft tries to fight US government attempts to get data held on foreign soil, but fails

11 years ago

Brazil ‘Internet Constitution’ Guarantees Privacy And Net Neutrality

Brazil passes legislation designed to protect web users ahead of global confernence on the future of Internet governance in the…

11 years ago

HMRC To Sell Private Taxpayer Data

The government is pushing ahead with legal changes that would allow HMRC to share anonymised taxpayer data, but only in…

11 years ago

Google Lambasted For Building ‘Digital Superstate’

A German media boss accuses Google of building a digital superstate and operating a global network monopoly

11 years ago

Virgin Media Fixes Email Issue After Users Complain Of Excessive Spam

Virgin Media customers with a 'virgin.net' address complain of receiving hundreds of messages after a service email lets anyone reply…

11 years ago

Lavabit Loses Contempt Of Court Appeal

Failure to hand over encryption keys could land Lavabit founder Levison with hefty fines

11 years ago

Google Gets Explicit On Email Scanning With Fresh Terms

Tech giant takes action after facing criticism for not being clear over Gmail scanning

11 years ago

Microsoft Azure Gains EU Privacy Approval

The Microsoft Azure platform becomes the first solution to meet the EU's stringent privacy requirements

11 years ago

EU Court Declares Data Retention ‘Invalid’

Rights bodies call for the UK to finally drop plans to force ISPs into keeping user information

11 years ago

Ex-GCHQ Head And David Blunkett Call For Spying Transparency

Former Home secretary David Blunkett and ex-director of GCHQ Sir David Omand both say the intelligence agency should be more…

11 years ago

Italy Fines Google €1m Over Street View Gaffe

Italy hands out one of the stiffest European fines to Google over its StreetView cars

11 years ago

Since the NSA Scandal, TechWeek Readers Are Suspicious Of Microsoft

The NSA scandal has eroded user trust in the big US cloud service and storage providers, suggests our latest poll

11 years ago

LinkedIn Fights To Shut Email Revealing Add-On

LinkedIn says it is doing everything it can to shut down a service called Sell Hack which shares email addresses,…

11 years ago

Turkish ISPs Set Up Fake Google DNS Servers

Google concerned over fake Domain Name System servers apparently set up by Turkish ISPs, amidst various forms of web censorship…

11 years ago

Obama To Propose NSA Stops Storing Phone Records

US President will make proposal to Congress following major public outcry at NSA mass surveillance

11 years ago

Microsoft Promises To Take Legal Advice Before Reading Hotmail Accounts

New rules come after the company allegedly read the email account of an ex-employee suspected of leaking Microsoft secrets

11 years ago

Huawei Upset At NSA Hacking Reports

Huawei is outraged: it seems that the NSA was spying on it, while the US government accused it of spying…

11 years ago

Microsoft Criticised For Accessing Blogger’s Hotmail

Microsoft has drawn complaints for accessing the Hotmail account of a blogger during its investigation of leaked software

11 years ago

NSA Lawyer: Tech Titans Knew Of Surveillance Data Collection

NSA brief contradicts tech giants' vociferous claims they knew nothing about surveillance

11 years ago

WhatsApp Founder Denies Facebook Acquisition Will Alter Privacy Policies

Jan Koum defends WhatsApp users' right to privacy following $19bn acquisition by Facebook earlier this month

11 years ago

NSA ‘Can Collect All Phone Calls In One Nation’

NSA data collection even more vast than previously thought

11 years ago

ICO Looks Into BT E-Mail Data Breach Claims

ICO looks into claims that BT exposed its users' email accounts during platform migration from Yahoo Mail

11 years ago

The Next 25 Years: No Privacy But Hey… Flying Cars!

Surveillance might be good for us, programming languages could die, and cars may fly, says Nathaniel Borenstein, inventor of email…

11 years ago

Tim Berners-Lee: I Knew The Web Would Be Big

However, the inventor of the World Wide Web never thought his creation would facilitate the exchange of so many cat…

11 years ago

European Parliament Approves EU Data Protection Regulation Draft

Overwhelming majority of MEPs vote in favour of measures like the ‘right to be forgotten’ and increased data breach fines

11 years ago

Edward Snowden Welcomes Debate On Surveillance, Warns The Fight Is Not Over

We need to encrypt everything, the whistleblower tells South by Southwest festival, over a live link from Moscow

11 years ago

Volkswagen Wants Collaboration With IT Industry And Connected Car Privacy – CeBIT 2014

Volkswagen CEO says IT and car industries must work together on connected cars and that there should be privacy protection…

11 years ago

Snowden Leaks Pit Technology Against Democracy, Says EU: CeBIT 2014

EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes says it is crucial that European data protection legislation is pushed through in 2014

11 years ago