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Merkel urges Germans to put aside fear of big data
Germans need to overcome their traditional fear of the large-scale collection of personal data by companies and instead embrace its opportunities or risk being …
Google hit with antitrust complaint over banned privacy app
Already under investigation by regulators in Europe, a new complaint against Google claims its ban of one privacy application violates antitrust regulations. Disconnect, the …
Blocking Pirate Bay doesn’t increase legit sales, study finds
Carnegie Mellon researchers have authored a study on how website blocks impact consumer behavior, and whether such actions can be used to reduce content …
Filesharing “a gateway into the dark side” says UK police chief
Unauthorised filesharing can be a “gateway” to online crime, according to Andy Archibald, deputy director of the National Cyber Crime Unit at the National …
Hack exposes personal data of 4 million federal workers
A cyberattack on the US government’s personnel office compromised the data of up to 4 million current and former federal employees, officials said Thursday. …
New Snowden leak: NSA uses warrantless Web surveillance to hunt hackers
Ever since Edward Snowden began to leak details on the mass surveillance programs of the NSA and other government agencies, there’s been an ongoing …
MEDJACK: Hackers hijacking medical devices to create backdoors in hospital networks
After the Office of Personnel Management breach, medical data was labeled as the “holy grail” for cybercriminals intent on espionage. “Medical information can be …
Americans resigned to giving up their privacy, says study
I am not fond of depressing you. So I’m going to leave it to a new study performed by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg …
he NSA boosted Internet monitoring to catch hackers
The U.S. National Security Agency is reportedly intercepting Internet communications from U.S. residents without getting court-ordered warrants, in an effort to hunt down malicious …
Schools use social media monitoring software to watch students
US schools have bought access to sophisticated social media monitoring tools that will let them spy on students’ use of the internet. The Orange …
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