Google, in its latest transparency report, has revealed that government request for information takedown has increased by 68 percent during the first half of 2013 as compared to the second half of…
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Tech behemoths urge President Obama to limit government surveillance
Technology giants including Microsoft, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple, AOL and Yahoo have come together and issued an open letter to US President Barack Obama and the Congress to bring in reforms…
Microsoft to reinforce encryption, increase transparency to tackle government snooping
Microsoft general counsel has likened government snooping efforts to ‘advanced persistent threats’ and has revealed that the company will be encrypting customer data while in transit between its data centres. Highlighting Microsoft…
UK Gov to order ISPs to block extremist websites
UK Government is mulling ways to keep netizens away from the influence of terror related contents and one of the measures it dubs viable is to orders ISPs to block extremist websites,…
Huawei: No government requests received to handover data, ever
Huawei, one of the world’s leading information and communications companies, in its cyber security report released today has claimed that no government or any of their agencies have ever asked the company…
Microsoft reveals first six months worth of government data requests for 2013
Microsoft recently revealed the latest end-user data request figures in its Law Enforcement Requests Report for the first six months according to which it received 37,196 global requests for user data from…