German privacy activists cry foul over data retention law
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Data logging? Nein danke Privacy activists have filed a constitutional complaint against Germany's data retention laws.â¦
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Google is told that it may be breaking EU privacy laws by keeping search data for up to two years.
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Web search leader Google Inc.'s   commitment to consumer privacy came under fire from  Privacy International, a British activist group that has  previously singled out Google for criticism.
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Politicos just blowing smoke Opinion Data protection, privacy and information law have never been so high profile as in recent months. Following the loss of 25 million people's personal details by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), there has been what seems like a tide of gaffe after slip-up, all resulting in private personal details spilling out into the public domain.â¦
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European Union governments are pushing through contentious new plans to retain data from telephone calls and e-mails for a minimum period of 12 months as part of new anti-terrorist and cybercrime proposals.
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Blog: The move comes in response to privacy gripes from advocacy groups about the practices companies like Microsoft use to target ads to consumers.
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Google has been warned that it may be violating European Union privacy laws by storing search data for up to two years.
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Fear of a Black Hat The German government this week published proposals to modernise the country's computer hacking laws.â¦
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Critics say a law designed to keep medical information confidential is being overzealously applied.
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The government needs to ensure greater protection for people's personal information, a think-tank  warns.
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A Congressional inquiry into online data brokers has raised concerns that federal and local law enforcement may be skirting privacy laws to obtain calling records
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A congressional inquiry into online data brokers has raised concerns that federal and local law enforcement may be skirting privacy laws to obtain calling records
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An antihacking proposal that has come under fire for overly restricting "white hat" security researchers has become law in Germany.
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Stricter legislation Flickr's introduction of content filters in Germany last week has provoked protests in blogs and web forums globally.â¦
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Data protection officials from 27 European countries have warned Google it is storing data on people's searches for too long.
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The irony of the German government floating a proposal to deploy spyware to infect the computers of suspected criminals isn't lost on the security community, still furious over the "anti-hacking" law that has undermined legitimate security research in that country.
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'Basic rights need to be guaranteed' in the third pillar The EU's data protection watchdog has warned that European officials are in danger of eroding basic data protection principles and has called on them to reconsider their actions.â¦