Flickr has updated some of its policies regarding the photos stored on the site and provided some details on existing policies. The big change is that Flickr will now keep all photos from a deleted account for 90 days, to make sure that they're still recoverable if you change of mind. The change comes after plen... |
27 May 2011
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A French trade association composed of large Internet companies including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, is challenging a new law that requires its members to store extensive data about their users, including clear text passwords, for a year.The draconian legislation, which far surpasses in scope the recommendations... |
10 April 2011
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Indian intelligence agencies are pressing the country's telecommunications department for wider data retention regulations that would force Internet service providers to store more information about communications.According to the Times of India, the Department of Telecom (DoT) is also being asked to increase th... |
1 March 2011
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Bahnhof, a large Swedish ISP, plans to offer its customers a way around the upcoming data retention law by routing all of the traffic through an encrypted VPN service.Bahnhof has been in the media spotlight before when it built an impressive datacenter inside the former Pionen nuclear defence center in Stockholm.Wiki... |
31 January 2011
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A new move by Microsoft is an example to follow for the rest of the search engine market when it comes down in protecting user privacy. Peter Cullen, Microsoft chief privacy strategist, announced at the start of this week that the company had introduced a key change to its data retention policy. As an integral part o... |
19 January 2010
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the Samuelson Clinic at UC Berkley, has sent a letter to Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO, arguing that Google Books should provide at least the same level or privacy for readers as libraries and bookstor... |
27 July 2009
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According to a new bill introduced in Canada, Internet service providers will have to dig deep into their own pockets in order to acquire, install and maintain "intercept-capable" equipment. The bill also makes it very clear that subscriber information must be released to law enforcement in a timely manner, without t... |
19 June 2009
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One of Sweden's main telecom providers, Tele2, has announced that it will start deleting IP records that could be used to identify its customers. The company's administration claims the decision is a response to demands of the general public, which strongly disapproves of the new anti-copyright legislation ... |
29 April 2009
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Local media in Germany is reporting (translate) that hackers have defaced the website of the German Interior Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble. On the first page, the website was promoting a link to a site protesting against the new biometric passports and telecommunications data retention legislation. The new data r... |
12 February 2009
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Two British citizens that sued the UK government for refusing to destroy their DNA and fingerprints records, after being acquitted of the criminal charges brought against them, won as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that this represented a direct violation of their right to private and family life. I... |
8 December 2008
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