The Safe Harbor agreement between the U.S. and Europe, which allows American web firms to process European customers’ personal data, is under serious threat in the wake of Edward Snowden’s NSA… Read more »
Nowhere (U.S. aside) is PRISM a hotter topic than in Germany. With the issue proving central to upcoming elections, some pretty wild claims are flying around — and the rest of… Read more »
The British Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee has rebuffed claims that UK intelligence services broke local law by taking PRISM data from the Americans. However, the committee also said it needed… Read more »
U.S. Military Police tipped off local authorities after a German man set up a joke Facebook event, inviting people to stroll around a “top secret” U.S. military facility to observe NSA… Read more »
Feeling the heat ahead of federal elections, German chancellor Angela Merkel has called for unified data protection rules across Europe and, to a more limited extent, on a global scale. But… Read more »
Privacy allows the intellectual and moral development of ourselves and our society. Without it, we are at best trapped in a system of self-censorship, and at worst building a platform for… Read more »
Privacy International’s suit attacks the secrecy and unaccountability surrounding the global web of online surveillance, which increasingly seems designed to circumvent nationally agreed-upon laws on personal freedom. Read more »
In a series of new developments, the EU digital chief has warned that policy makers might put “security guarantees ahead of open markets”, and the European Parliament has launched a major… Read more »
Le Monde says it has exposed a secret scheme, being carried out by the French intelligence service DGSE, that stores metadata for communications inside the country and possibly beyond. Read more »
Hans-Peter Friedrich, Germany’s internal security chief, has become one of the first senior EU politicians to explicitly suggest the avoidance of U.S. cloud services in the wake of the PRISM scandal… Read more »