From January to May, the industrial profits of enterprises above designated size achieved 2,081.25 billion yuan, an increase of 12.3 percent over the same period last year. Of which, the industrial profits from principal business achieved ...
Tags: Industrial Profits, Principal Business, January, May
Microsoft is seeking permission to disclose "aggregate statistics" about the number of requests for data it receives under the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, following a similar move by Google earlier this month. FISA has ...
Recent leaks about surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency show an agency with little regard for the U.S. Constitution and laws on the books, two past NSA leakers said Wednesday. Leaks by former NSA contractor Edward ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has served Google with an enforcement notice regarding the collection of data by the web firm's Street View cars. The decision follows an investigation into Google which found its collection of ...
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The National Security Agency can retain communications of U.S. citizens or residents potentially indefinitely if those communications are encrypted, according to a newly leaked secret government document. The document describes the ...
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More secret National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden to The Guardian suggest that the U.S. agency's British counterpart intercepts petabytes worth of communication data daily from fiber-optic cables. The operation ...
The U.S. Congress should press for privacy protections and more information about surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency, some technology and civil liberties activists said Friday. After recent news leaks about two ...
Is your car watching your every move? Can the cable company track your DVR habits? Those two privacy issues are bubbling up in Congress, where lawmakers this week filed bipartisan legislation that would give car owners control over data ...
Tags: Black Box Recorder, Lawmaker, DVR Snooping
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has discussed potential partnerships with Samsung Electronics in its bid to boost mobile advertising sales, according to the head of Samsung's handset division, Shin Jong Kyun. Zuckerberg launched Facebook in ...
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The National Security Agency is creating new processes aimed at making it harder for systems administrators to misuse privileged access to agency systems, NSA officials told the U.S. House Intelligence Committee Tuesday. NSA director ...
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From January to May, the private investment in fixed assets reached 8,383.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.8 percent in nominal terms, down by 0.1 percentage point over the first four months. The proportion of private ...
Tags: Private Investment, Fixed Assets
From January to May 2013, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 13,121.1 billion yuan, up by 20.4 percent year-on-year in nominal terms, the growth rate decreased 0.2 percentage point over that in the first ...
Tags: Fixed Assets, Investment
In May 2013, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up by 9.2 percent year-on-year (the following growth rates of value added are real growth rates, after deducting price factors), 0.1 percentage point ...
Tags: Industrial Production
EU Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding has raised her concerns over the Prism surveillance information-sharing programme with the US Attorney General Eric Holder, who she is to meet in Dublin on Friday. In a statement on her website, ...
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Even before bombshell disclosures of the U.S. government's massive collection of Internet and cellphone data, many U.S. residents were concerned about privacy violations. In a survey conducted just days before reports surfaced about ...
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