It is not just the election of Donald Trump that gives us pause for thought (and a variety of other emotions – see Facebook for most of them). There seem to be a host of Read more…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Thursday upheld a decision to block the website of LinkedIn, Interfax news agency reported, setting a precedent for the way foreign internet firms operate in the country. Russia’s Read more…
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s surprise election victory has alarmed technology companies and civil libertarians fearful that Trump – a self-described ‘law and order’ president – will attempt to expand surveillance programs and rejoin Read more…
The recent decision by the FCC to force ISPs not to harvest and share their customers’ data for profit is, some would say, a great decision (for customers). The additional decision by the FCC not Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – US short-term rental company Airbnb has told Chinese users that it will store their personal data locally as foreign tech companies operating in China respond to increasing regulatory pressure. The firm said Read more…
ITEM: If you want to keep your OTT messages private, don’t use Skype, Snapchat or anything from Tencent. That’s the warning this week from Amnesty International, which ranked 16 popular messaging apps from 11 companies Read more…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Serious human rights concerns have been raised by a Reuters report that Yahoo had scanned the emails of hundreds of millions of users at the request of a US intelligence service, a Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by US intelligence officials, according to people familiar with Read more…
ITEM: Google Glass is back – only it’s not from Google, it looks a lot cooler, it’s far easier to use, and it’s ten times cheaper. Also, it just might be able to sidestep the Read more…
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