With the end of Safe Harbour, data protection is a blank page waiting to be written.
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With the end of the Safe Harbour agreement, data protection for their users will be more than a tick-box exercise for US firms.
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As Wikileaks reveals yet more details of the astonishing extent of GCHQ mass surveillance, where is the proof that bulk data collection even works?
The web should expand our horizons, but instead it’s shrinking our view.
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A web obsessed with gathering data about our habits becomes less valuable to us, showing us only more and more of the same.
Everyone wants to get their hands on it.
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Firms want your data, but if they offer to pay it’s likely they stand to gain more than you do.
It might look free, but you pay for it in other ways.
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Windows 10 is being offered as a free upgrade to most Windows users, but you pay for it in the information you hand over to Microsoft.
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Growing up is never easy – especially when your childish status updates are still online.
Tell no one… that we’ve just lost all your data.
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When hackers take down companies in response to their actions, security chiefs need to know what the CEO is saying in public.
Courts uphold laws on human rights online in the face of poorly drafted, draconian laws.
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Government could be forced to repeal DRIPA surveillance legislation after court ruling.
Caspar Bowden, privacy advocate and campaigner.
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Privacy advocate broadsided any deserving criticism, including his employers.
Businesses say data protection sacrifices the cloud advantage for security.
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While greater data protection in Europe seems inevitable, the eventual form it takes is still up for grabs.
Not dancing in the aisles.
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David Anderson’s report on surveillance isn’t a charter for online privacy but it could create problems for a government set on capturing all our data.
The NSA has eyes and ears around the globe.
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US intelligence agencies can no longer collect and store the telecommunications data of US citizens but other countries are strengthening their efforts.
Now that you’ve got access to your files, what will you - or someone else - do with them?
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Technology might make online access to medical records possible, but that doesn’t mean we should.
“I’m looking forward to the day all this needle-hunting is computerised, to be honest.”
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The UK and other governments seem set on the idea that finding needles can be made easier by radically increasing the size of the haystack.
It’s a lot more than just a timepiece.
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The Apple Watch represents a significant shift from handheld technology to devices that become an invisible part of our lives.
Back in charge.
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Freed of the Liberal Democrats’ influence, here are some of the things the Conservative government has in store for us.
The French National Assembly, where the surveillance bill was passed.
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Legislation is passed in France that would see state surveillance powers scale towards those in the US and UK.
Too hot to handle, for children.
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Ensuring it’s adults that must process their adult emotions - and not children stumbling across them through pornography - is the adult thing to do.
How will they feel if they find their parents are monitoring their every online movement?
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Teenagers need to trust their parents and learn about trusting others. Apps like Teensafe might undermine both.
‘Sign it? I mean, have you seen these new Facebook terms and conditions?’
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The Liberal Democrats have been a lone voice among the parties calling for a digital bill of rights governing our growing use of the internet. But is it the right solution for the problem in hand?