The U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a semi-secret court that deals with complaints over the authorities’ surveillance activities, has declared that the authorities’ tapping of major internet cables that touch the… Read more »
British spy agency GCHQ has rejected freedom of information requests from Privacy International regarding documents that describe the Anglophone pact, so now the activists are taking the matter to the European… Read more »
Facebook nemesis Max Schrems is fed up with what he sees as the ineffectiveness of the Irish data protection regulator, so he’s launched a mega-suit in his home country of Austria… Read more »
An Irish judge has asked the Court of Justice of the European Union to say whether it was OK for the country’s data protection watchdog to refuse to investigate the alleged… Read more »
Luxembourg’s data protection regulator says Microsoft and Skype’s transfer of Europeans’ data to the U.S. remains legal, despite the Snowden revelations about what happens to that data. It’s a messy situation… Read more »
The Irish data protection chief turned down a request to investigate Facebook’s alleged complicity in the NSA’s PRISM scheme, but campaigners Europe v Facebook have won the right to a judicial… Read more »
Make of it what you will, given that Huawei was founded by an ex-Chinese-military engineer and has had lots of mud thrown at it from the West, but the telecoms equipment… Read more »
A parliamentary inquiry into the laws governing British intelligence services is to add privacy implications to its remit, take submissions from the public and perhaps even hold some of its sessions… Read more »
An activist alliance called Privacy not Prism wants the European Court of Human Rights to bring effective oversight to British spies’ global surveillance activities. Its crowdfunding campaign for covering legal costs… Read more »