Source: Positionspapier des ULD zum Safe-Harbor-Urteil des Gerichtshofs der Europäischen Union vom 6. Oktober 2015, C-362/14 – ULD

I know the French were collaborators during WWII, but shouldn’t they have learned their lesson then?! France wants proposed rules applied to EU citizens as well Source: Fingerprints, facial scans, EU border data slurp too tasty for French to resist

Such as your name, frequent flyer number and record locator, which allows you to log into the company website and view the rest of your flights… Source: What’s in a Boarding Pass Barcode? A Lot — Krebs on Security

The EU courts have found that Safe Harbour means that the 4th Reich may not have EU citizens’ data beamed to it, unless the company doing the beaming (eg Facebook) is prepared to safeguard the data from spying by the KGB. I mean Stazi. I mean NSA. Source: The Court of Justice declares that the Read more about EU Court of Justice declares that the Commission’s US Safe Harbour Decision is invalid[…]

We collect non-personal data to make money from our free offerings so we can keep them free, including: Advertising ID associated with your device. Browsing and search history, including meta data. Internet service provider or mobile network you use to connect to our products. Information regarding other applications you may have on your device and Read more about AVG to flog your web browsing, search history from mid-October[…]

By 2010, GCHQ stated it was logging “30bn metadata records per day. By 2012, collection had increased to 50 billion per day, and work was underway to double capacity to 100 billion.”GCHQ has since “developed new population scale analytics for multi-petabyte cluster,” which allows “population scale target discovery.”In a vision document for 2013, its aim Read more about UK GCHQ stashes away 50+ billion records a day on people.[…]

The judges identified two key problems with the law: that it does not provide for independent court or judicial scrutiny to ensure that only data deemed “strictly necessary” is examined; and that there is no definition of what constitutes “serious offences” in relation to which material can be investigated. For legal authority, the judges relied Read more about UK DRIPA privacy invasion blocked by EU courts[…]

Sky News has found evidence that rogue mobile phone towers, which can listen in on people’s calls without their knowledge, are being operated in the UK.IMSI catchers, also known as Stingrays, mimic mobile phone masts and trick phones into logging on.The controversial surveillance technology is used by police agencies worldwide to target the communications of Read more about Fake Mobile Phone Towers Operating In The UK[…]

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MIAMI (AP) — Investigators do not need a search warrant to obtain cellphone tower location records in criminal prosecutions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a closely-watched case involving the rules for changing technology. via News from The Associated Press. Moar grip on your hapless citizens, comrade?

His step-by-step instructions for making a clandestine phone call are as follows: Analyze your daily movements, paying special attention to anchor points (basis of operation like home or work) and dormant periods in schedules (8-12 p.m. or when cell phones aren’t changing locations); Leave your daily cell phone behind during dormant periods and purchase a Read more about How To Make A Secret Phone Call[…]

As Bloomberg reports, RadioShack is offering up more than 13 million email addresses and 65 million physical addresses to the highest bidder via RadioShack Selling Customer Data In Bankruptcy Auction. Didn’t see that coming…

This year, we are going to see the transformation of Uber into a big data company cut from the same cloth as Google, Facebook and Visa – using the wealth of information they know about me and you to deliver new services and generate revenue by selling this data to others.Starwood is Just the beginningRecently, Read more about Uber: Selling your data[…]

Graham told a confused Bloomberg News: "I’ve tried not to have a system where I can just say the first dumb thing that comes to my mind. I’ve always been concerned. I can get texts, and I call you back, if I want." McCain meanwhile said this: "I’m afraid that if I was emailing, given Read more about America’s most powerful men explain why they’re scared of email[…]

Dutch courts have decided that the ubiquitous tracking of every person in the nation is at variance with the right to having a private life and has to be stopped immediately. Hopefully the NL Gov (of which the Justice department is very disappointed with the verdict, the house of commons less so) will not appeal Read more about Freedom respected by NL courts – no more total tracking of internet and calling data[…]

A Supreme Court decision handed down on Wednesday has given carte blanche to police forces to retain personal data they have collected for virtually any purpose and hold it as long as they like – even when the people targeted are not violent and have committed no crime. via UK Supreme Court waves through indiscriminate Read more about Big Brother UK: Supreme Court waves through indiscriminate police surveillance[…]

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“If you do not enable Voice Recognition, you will not be able to use interactive voice recognition features, although you may be able to control your TV using certain predefined voice commands. While Samsung will not collect your spoken word, Samsung may still collect associated texts and other usage data so that we can evaluate Read more about Samsung TVs listen to you and send your words far away[…]

How is it possible these muffheads running Europe didn’t realise this? If you put stuff in American cloud it is giving it away to the NSA FBI and any other 3 letter US acronym you can think of. And these dozy fuckers are surprised it’s going badly with the economy? And that people don’t like Read more about EU politicians use outlook in the cloud, surprised all their base belongs to USA[…]

He wants to use it to couple databases such as the license plate data they gather everywhere in NL with the tax database, creating huge centralised databases. Because centralised databases are great! Especially when everyone can access them. Do people never learn? Centralised databases are a very very bad idea. Privacy volgende slachtoffer van Charlie Read more about NL old spyboss uses Charlie Hebdo to invade your privacy[…]

Refuse to just let it die and give people some form of privacy. Does the US never learn? House Dem revives major cyber bill | TheHill.