Yesterday, when I was walking down to my local Berlin food market at lunchtime, I saw a child pointing at a strange but familiar vehicle rolling down the road. It looked… Read more »
The British Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee seized on Facebook’s emotion-manipulation study as a perfect example of why people need to be more aware of how their personal data is used. Read more »
Google and other search engines should remove links to out-of-date or unwelcome personal information from all of their search results around the world – not just in specific European countries –… Read more »
The U.K. suicide prevention charity maintains that legal advisers have told it the controversial app is compliant with British data protection law — but refuse to explain this position just yet,… Read more »
Salesforce.com has taken the wraps off its first EU-sited data center in Slough, England, little more than a week after Amazon opened up its second European facility in Frankfurt. The SaaS CRM… Read more »
The Samaritans Radar Twitter app, launched this week by the U.K.’s main suicide prevention charity, has good intentions. However, it’s an ethical and legal minefield. Read more »
Google says it is “studying their order to determine next steps.” Based on precedent, those next steps will involve Google paying lip service to the privacy regulators and doing nothing to… Read more »
A group of European privacy regulators has sent Google suggestions for complying with EU data protection rules. As Reuters reported Friday, the Article 29 Working Party wrote to Google CEO Larry… Read more »