Legal: PRISM
Microsoft, Salesforce among first certified companies under US-EU Privacy Shield
More than 200 applications pending from US companies....
Privacy Shield regulations to replace invalidated EU-US data transfer agreement
New law expected to be formally ratified next week but may still face legal challenges from unhappy critics....
Proposed EU–US “Privacy Shield” data transfer agreement dead in current form
As suggested by earlier leaks, European privacy regulators are rejecting the new “Privacy Shield” Data Transfer Agreement announced in...
EU & US “Privacy Shield” Data Transfer Agreement Faces Skeptics In Europe
Earlier this month, American and European officials announced a new framework to ensure the continued flow of data across the Atlantic. This was...
EU-US Privacy Shield Announced To Replace Safe Harbor Privacy Deal
After months of not knowing the future of transatlantic data flows privacy, the European Commission announced the replacement for the Safe...
Microsoft To Build German Data Centers To Address US Govt “Spying”
Last month, the European Court of Justice cited the Snowden revelations and US domestic surveillance to invalidate a 15-year-old “Safe...
Safe Harbor Overthrow Creates New Data Purgatory For US, EU Companies
The SIINDA conference in Prague concluded today with a panel of European publishers and lawyers discussing a range of legal and regulatory...
Citing NSA Spying, European Court Kills Data Transfer Agreement Between EU & US
The two-year old Snowden-NSA spying revelations have fueled a growing climate of hostility toward Google, Facebook and other US tech companies...
Data Protection Case Against Facebook Ireland Open To All Users Outside Of US & Canada
Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems wants Facebook to pay for breaching European data protection law, and has filed a lawsuit against the...
WordPress.com To Start Serving Pages Over SSL As Anti-Surveillance Measure
Automattic, the company that created and owns the WordPress publishing platform, is joining the battle against government surveillance. The...
Yahoo Makes Secure Search The Default
Yahoo has now joined Google in making all searches people do automatically go through a secure server, to help prevent eavesdropping by...
Microsoft Calls For International Conference On Government Surveillance
Last week President Obama announced reforms to curb NSA domestic spying abuses. There was a range of reactions but many critics contend he...
Tech Leaders Join To Demand “Global Surveillance Reform”
Major US tech companies have joined together to urge the US government and the governments of other countries to limit internet-based spying on...
The Questions Google Refuses To Answer About Search Privacy
Last month, Google made one of the biggest changes in search privacy ever, by routing all searches through its Google Secure Search service. Why...
Google Makes First Amendment Challenge To Publish FISA Request Counts
Google wants to be transparent to its users about the number of super-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests it is...
Yahoo: We Take User Privacy Seriously Too!
Following missives from Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple over the past 72 hours, Yahoo issued its own disclosure statement last night...
Apple: iMessage, FaceTime More Secure Than Cell Phones
Following the NSA-PRISM surveillance revelations last week and “direct-access rebuttals” by other major tech firms, Apple has...
Google, Facebook In Transparency Battle Over PRISM Disclosures
Last night, what might be called a “transparency battle” erupted between Google and Facebook following Facebook’s disclosure...
Google, Facebook & Microsoft Ask US Gov’t For Permission To Report FISA Data Requests
Google, Facebook and Microsoft have all asked the US government for permission to include data requests made under the Foreign Intelligence...
As Early As 2000 NSA Set Out To “Live On The Network”
An enormous amount has already been written about the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) “domestic spying” since...
