The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of a U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program targeting customers of Verizon Communications. The ACLU's lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District ...
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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined £6,031,200 against investment company Sesame for providing unsubstantial investment advices to clients and poor management of systems and controls to check its appointed ...
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After being accused of a lack of transparency by an independent watchdog, the European Privacy Association (EPA) has confirmed that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are backers. The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), which works to expose ...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has resumed accepting bitcoins donations, saying some of the legal ambiguity around the virtual currency has disappeared. The influential digital watchdog stopped accepting bitcoins two years ago citing ...
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Google kicks off its I/O developer conference next Wednesday and if there's one thing that could steal the limelight from Android, Chrome and all the other Google projects, it's Glass. Glass is a head-mounted computer worn like regular ...
The mobile industry's efforts to convince lawmakers that self-regulation alone is the best way to address growing concerns over privacy-invading mobile applications appears to be running into some headwind. On Thursday, Rep. Hank Johnson ...
China's product quality watchdog claimed on its website that Beijing Hyundai Motor Company had decided to recall 121,385 IX35 vehicles over brake pedal switch. It claimed that the recalled IX35 vehicles were manufactured during 2010.4.9 ...
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New legislation introduced by a group of U.S. lawmakers would require mobile application developers to obtain consent from consumers before collecting their personal data and to secure the data they collect. The Application Privacy, ...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that the "lack of a delete button on the internet is... a significant issue". In an interview by economist Nouriel Roubini at New York University's business school, Schmidt was asked what he believed ...
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A Dutch citizen arrested in Spain on suspicion of launching what is described as the biggest cyberattack in internet history operated from a bunker and had a van capable of hacking into networks anywhere in the country, officials say. The ...
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Micrel has introduced a +/-0.5% accuracy voltage supervisor, with manual reset input, watchdog timer and dual outputs in 1.6mm x 1.6mm thin DFN package. The MIC826 offers eight reset threshold options and is intended to monitor 1.8V to ...
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Amazon has completed a deal worth $26m (£17m) to acquire Cambridge-based start-up Evi, developer of the voice-activated virtual intelligence applications of the same name. The deal has been rumoured for some time and according to ...
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The "right to be forgotten" online, a principle that broadly aims to govern when and how websites are allowed to serve cookies to users' devices, was dealt a blow today by privacy watchdog the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). ...
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The ICO has today warned that the data protection regulation currently making its way through the European Parliament may not suit the UK, and in fact may not even reach the agreement necessary for it to come into force. Further reading ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced that it would launch a review into its handling of the horsemeat scandal. The food safety watchdog announced this at a board meeting in Cardiff. The independent investigation will be led by ...
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