Irony thy name is Britannia

A top Brexit fan has taken the UK government to the European Court over its snooping laws and won.

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.

Anti-trust

The EU is gearing up for what will be an epic legal battle with the search outfit Google.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Also Ken

The new "smart" Barbie is apparently creeping out privacy experts. 

Apparently makes them safer