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Five Major Tech Issues Facing Snooper’s Charter

There are some serious technology issues that need to be ironed out in Snooper's Charter. Here's five of the biggest

12 years ago

Apple To Face Court Over User Tracking

A US federal judge rules that tracking accusations should be investigated

12 years ago

Ministers, MPs And Privacy Groups Go To War Over Snooper’s Charter

The Draft Communications Data Bill is released but is widely panned by MPs and privacy experts

12 years ago

Skype To Place Big Adverts In VoIP Calls

Skype ads - designed to distract you on calls - will hit you if you don't have credit

12 years ago

Apple Sends Out Spy Planes To Challenge Google Maps

iOS 6 will feature “Google on steroids”, according to reports

12 years ago

Virgin Media Addresses Tube Wi-Fi Privacy Concerns

Virgin changes terms and conditions following allegations of snooping

12 years ago

Microsoft IE10 Do Not Track Option Hits Opposition

Microsoft's long awaited Do Not Track option for IE10 does not meet the draft specification of the feature

12 years ago

UK Police Clueless On DNA Databases

Big Brother Watch finds police are keeping lots of DNA data on innocent people

12 years ago

Facebook ‘Pages’ Admins Get New Privacy Controls

Facebook has created more limited roles for administrators of its marketing pages to help protect privacy and security

12 years ago

‘Do Not Track’ Set As Default For Internet Explorer 10

Microsoft said it will err on the side of privacy by setting Internet Explorer 10 to decline tracking by default,…

12 years ago

EU Takes Five Countries To Court Over Cookie Law

Massive fines are threatening Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia

12 years ago

O2 Porn Sharers Set For Legal Rogering From Ben Dover

O2 customers who have illegally downloaded Ben Dover's material can expect something nasty in the post

12 years ago

ICO’s Cookie Law Advice May Make Life Easier For Websites

The ICO offers more promotion of the implied consent method for cookie law compliance, as concerns over confusion mount

12 years ago

Google Clashes With French Privacy Regulators

France's CNIL has said the search giant is being uncooperative with investigators in a privacy probe

12 years ago

IBM Bans Siri Over Data Privacy Fears

Security concerns prohibit use of the iPhone personal assistant

12 years ago

NHS To Publish Anonymised Patient Data

The long-delayed Department of Health information strategy plans to release anonymised patient data to researchers, industry and the public

12 years ago

Configuration Errors Caused Utah Data Breach

A massive data breach in the US state of Utah was caused by a series of configuration mistakes during an…

13 years ago

Lawsuit Seeks $15bn For Facebook Privacy Violations

The California class action lawsuit against Facebook arrives as a German official expresses concerns about the company's privacy approach

13 years ago

Twitter Announces Support For Do Not Track System

Twitter has joined the privacy drive after announcing its support for the "Do Not Track" initiative

13 years ago

Government Proves Cookie Law Is Cuckoo

The cookie law is crazy, as the government has shown by saying it hasn't bothered to get compliant, argues Tom…

13 years ago

French Watchdog CNIL To Meet Google Over Privacy

Google is to meet with the French privacy watchdog next week over its controversial new user privacy policy

13 years ago

RunCore Launches SSD With A Self-Destruct Button

Paranoid citizens and secret agents rejoice - you can destroy your data

13 years ago

ICO To Investigate Civil Service Data Breach Claims

Channel 4 documentary finds 25 confidentiality breaches per week at the Department for Work and Pensions

13 years ago

Barnet Borough Council Fined £70,000 For Data Loss

Council fined after second offence in two years, but further loss prevented by laptop encryption

13 years ago

Pirate Pay Earns Microsoft Support

Russian developers of torrent blocker receive £62,000 in funding from Microsoft

13 years ago

Anti ‘Snooper’s Charter’ Petition Gets Over 155,000 Signatures

People are getting behind petitions against the Communications Data Bill

13 years ago

IT Life: Keeping Sheffield Entertained

He likes mobile advertising, but he's a privacy advocate. We speak to Michael Cook of Sheffield International Venues

13 years ago

Quiz Of The Week: Protecting Privacy

How much of your private information is scattered around the Web?

13 years ago