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Encyrption ban banished from draft UK surveillance bill
A threatened ban on encryption has been banished from a draft bill on surveillance powers in the U.K. — but the government plans to …
U.K. Wants to Remove Links to Stories About Removing Links to Stories
Britain’s privacy watchdog wants the right to forget the “Streisand Effect.” The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office on Thursday ordered Google Inc. to remove links …
Does the government really want to ban WhatsApp, iMessage and Skype?
Eight hundred million people around the world use WhatsApp to communicate, we learned this week from its owners, Facebook. Yet this is the messaging …
U.K. Police Confirm Ongoing Criminal Probe Of Snowden Leak Journalists
A secretive British police investigation focusing on journalists working with Edward Snowden’s leaked documents remains ongoing two years after it was quietly launched, The …
UK data retention scheme ruled unlawful
Britain’s Data Retention and Investigative Powers Act has been ruled unlawful by the UK’s High Court of Justice, after the digital surveillance scheme was …
Revealed: how US and UK spy agencies defeat internet privacy and security
US and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to protect the …
Inquiry needed into GCHQ’s operations
Canon Collins Educational and Legal Assistance Trust is alarmed both that GCHQ has been monitoring and retaining the electronic communications of the Legal Resources …
Insecure, narcissistic people more likely to post on Facebook
People suffering from low self-esteem are more likely to post their relationship status on Facebook, a new study has found. A report from Brunel …
Cyber-security: £5 million investment in UK innovation
The funding, from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Innovate UK, will support the further development of the Centre for Secure …
A network error routed traffic for the UK’s nuclear weapons agency through Russian telecom
For the past week, something strange has been going on in the European internet. For five days, web traffic from Texas to certain addresses …
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