
UK saved from snooping by European court
Irony thy name is Britannia
A top Brexit fan has taken the UK government to the European Court over its snooping laws and won.

EU wants more privacy on web services
Extending secuirty and confidentuality of phone to Skype and WhatsApp
The EU is planning to extend telecom rules covering security and confidentiality of communications to web services such as Microsoft's Skype and Facebook's WhatsApp. However it looks like this could be used to restrict how they use encryption.

EU preparing to slap Google
Anti-trust
The EU is gearing up for what will be an epic legal battle with the search outfit Google.

Apple in internal battle over privacy
Needs the money
While the fruity cargo cult is publically fighting against the FBI over privacy concerns, it is facing an internal battle using data for advertising.

US not allowed to take EU data
Legal ruling puts US tech in a spin
The US technology industry is paying the price for the obsession that its government has on stealing data.

Blackberry Priv is now official
Android slider by Blackberry.
We've known for months that it's coming. Now we know what it looks like and what it's called. The name tells most of the story of Blackberry Venice Priv.

We don't give a flying duck about your personal data
Says the Montenegrin Data Protection Agency to its gullible citizens.
This is the latest of a number of deliberations by the European Data Protection Agencies on whether or not their national laws apply to the processing of personal data of their citizens by multibillion, I meant multinational conglomerates. And the Montenegrin DPA says - no!

Caspar Bowden dead
Privacy campaigner extraordinary
Caspar Bowden, the bloke who had a key role in defining and defending digital privacy for the last 20 years has died from cancer.

Smart Barbie creeps out privacy experts
Also Ken
The new "smart" Barbie is apparently creeping out privacy experts.
Europe debates stealing more data from travellers
Apparently makes them safer