Category: Privacy

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Report: EU unhappy with US response to Yahoo email scanning scandal

January 12, 2017
Natasha Lomas

 The European Union is not happy with the explanation provided by the US government for why…

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Europe proposes expanding telco data privacy rules to WhatsApp, Facebook et al

January 10, 2017
Natasha Lomas

 The European Commission has set out proposals for updating rules which govern the use of personal…

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Liberty is crowdfunding a legal challenge to UK surveillance law

January 9, 2017
Natasha Lomas

 Civil liberties group Liberty has launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund a UK High Court challenge…

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Voxer adds end-to-end encrypted ‘private chats’

January 9, 2017
Natasha Lomas

 Voice-focused messaging app Voxer has added an end-to-end encrypted ‘private chats’ feature on its Android and…

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WikiLeaks mulls building a dox database of verified Twitter users

January 6, 2017
Taylor Hatmaker

 As it tweets in lockstep with the President-elect about punishing leakers involved in the Russian hacking scandal,…

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Messaging app Telegram adds unsend feature

January 4, 2017
Natasha Lomas

 Disappearing messages don’t impress security professionals, given how flimsy a privacy protection they offer, but despite…

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WTF is a VPN

January 1, 2017
Romain Dillet

 You’re watching a movie. A criminal is trying to evade a crime scene in a sports…

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Privacy is still alive and kicking in the digital age

December 25, 2016
Gry Hasselbalch,Pernille Tranberg

 Our lives are lived in data. Data crossing borders and connected in virtual space. Most often,…