On August 28th, 2021 with 38 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record, written by Catalin Cimpanu: The European Union's lead data protection supervisor has recommended on...
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On June 8th, 2021 with 14 comments
The EU is facing a backlash over new AI rules that allow for limited use of facial recognition by authorities -- with opponents warning the carveouts could...
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On May 30th, 2021 with 64 comments
In the latest SolarWinds mass-phishing attack, "The highest percentage of emails went to the United States, but [incident response firm] Volexity also saw a...
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On April 21st, 2021 with 61 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The European Union unveiled strict regulations on Wednesday to govern the use of artificial...
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On April 4th, 2021 with 177 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: Friday Tesla decided to appeal a U.S. National Labor Relations Board ruling that it violated America's labor...
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On March 14th, 2021 with 124 comments
"The Spanish government on Thursday announced legislation that classifies food delivery riders as employees of the digital platforms they work for, not...
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On March 13th, 2021 with 92 comments
"The cracking of a previously-unbreakable encrypted messaging service popular with criminals involved in drug trafficking and organised crime delivered a major...
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On January 31st, 2021 with 46 comments
"Huawei, the crown jewel of China's technology industry, has suffered from a sustained American campaign to keep its equipment from being used in new 5G...
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On January 28th, 2021 with 46 comments
Four European apps which secure user data via end-to-end encryption, ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota, have issued a joint-statement warning over...
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On January 18th, 2021 with 60 comments
Here's some news from CNN for the 30 million tourists visiting Venice, Italy each year:
They're watching you, wherever you walk. They know exactly where you...
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On December 12th, 2020 with 33 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader zoobab shares this update about the long-standing Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, a Munich-based non-profit...
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On November 29th, 2020 with 100 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader SonicSpike brings this report from AFP:
Swiss politicians have voiced outrage and demanded an investigation after revelations that a...
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On November 1st, 2020 with 80 comments
The BBC reports:
Slovakia has begun an ambitious project to test everyone over the age of 10 for Covid-19, but the president has said she thinks the idea is...
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On October 31st, 2020 with 55 comments
"Many patients of a large psychotherapy clinic in Finland have been contacted individually by a blackmailer, after their data was stolen," reports the BBC:
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On October 24th, 2020 with 16 comments
The Times of London reports:
A gang of cyberexperts turned a former German military bunker into one of Europe's biggest hubs for the "dark web" and a...
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On October 16th, 2020 with 25 comments
France and the Netherlands have proposed stricter EU rules to oversee large technology firms, such as Alphabet, Facebook and Amazon. From a report: In a joint...
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On October 8th, 2020 with 101 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: EU capitals have been put under pressure to agree to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030...
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On October 7th, 2020 with 49 comments
A cross-party group of MEPs has written to Amazon's chief executive, Jeff Bezos, demanding information on the online retailer's monitoring of trade union...
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On October 6th, 2020 with 23 comments
Europe's top court has delivered another slap-down to indiscriminate government mass surveillance regimes. From a report: In a ruling today the CJEU has made...
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On September 21st, 2020 with 85 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The EU wants to arm itself with new powers to take on big technology companies, including the ability to...
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On September 15th, 2020 with 81 comments
The European Union's top court has handed down its first decision on the bloc's net neutrality rules -- interpreting the law as precluding the use of...
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On September 15th, 2020 with 29 comments
The malware that French law enforcement deployed en masse onto Encrochat devices, a large encrypted phone network using Android phones, had the capability to...
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On August 1st, 2020 with 23 comments
Germany's top court handed down its first ruling since the EU's GDPR laws went into effect in mid-2018. The court "sided with Google and rejected requests to...
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On July 30th, 2020 with 12 comments
According to CNBC sources, Google's $2.1 billion bid for fitness tracker maker Fitbit will face a full-scale EU antitrust investigation next week. From the...
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On July 17th, 2020 with 74 comments
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the "Privacy Shield" data transfer agreement, which had allowed tech companies to transfer EU user data to the US,...
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On June 21st, 2020 with 26 comments
An anonymous reader quotes NBC News:
France's highest administrative court has upheld a fine of 50 million euros ($56 million) Google was ordered to pay for...
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On May 6th, 2020 with 284 comments
You can't make access to your website's content dependent on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data -- aka a 'consent cookie wall.' Not if you need...
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On April 27th, 2020 with 20 comments
U.S. chipmaker Broadcom has offered to scrap its exclusivity deals with TV and modem makers to end an EU antitrust investigation and stave off a possible hefty...
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On March 22nd, 2020 with 88 comments
An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has gone into quarantine after being informed that a doctor who administered...
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On March 22nd, 2020 with 197 comments
AmiMoJo quotes Reuters:
Russian media have deployed a "significant disinformation campaign" against the West to worsen the impact of the coronavirus, generate...
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