GreatFire.org, which monitors the activities of China’s monolithic web censorship mechanism, claims HSBC’s Akamai-using corporate banking portal has falled victim to the Great Firewall. Read more »
The anti-tracking service has also revealed a partnership with Deutsche Telekom, which unlike some carriers seems to be more interested in protecting its customers than selling them out to advertisers. Read more »
As the Verizon “permacookie” debacle shows, some carriers are more interested in inserting themselves into the lucrative mobile advertising world than they are in their customers’ privacy. With new developments around… Read more »
Privacy International has failed in an attempt to get the OECD to censure multinational telecoms firms that reportedly helped UK spy agency GCHQ engage in mass surveillance around the world. Read more »
Xyo’s touch-centric technology, which is based on fine-grained “micro-categories” of apps, will be quickly integrated with Digital Turbine’s offering for its imminent deployment with Verizon and Vodafone Australia. Read more »
The U.S. firm’s contract for running Germany’s federal administrative infrastructure will be allowed to expire next year, and the NSA revelations are a big, explicit reason. Read more »
The carrier group has published a very lengthy and reasonably detailed breakdown of its interactions with law enforcement and spy agencies, covering 29 countries where its operators have faced metadata and… Read more »
Protesting is useful to a point, but the privacy pack that accompanies Thursday’s Reset The Net campaign could help people make a real difference. Read more »
The deal is indicative both of Vodafone’s current wealth and of the European trend toward converging and consolidating fixed-line and mobile services. Read more »
Meizu and BQ, which you will be forgiven for not recognizing, will be the first manufacturers to release Ubuntu mobile devices, and Canonical claims bigger names will follow in 2015. Read more »