It seems that Edward Snowden was right on the money with his views on the EU-US Privacy Shield Pact. The whistleblower hero (or traitor, depending on who you ask) pulled no punches…
Category: Public Sector
Online Abuse Laws Need To Be Reviewed, Conservative MP Says
The increasing problem of online abuse and the inconsistent response to the victims of online abuse need a review of the laws surrounding online abuse, former culture secretary Maria Miller says. Conservative…
Halifax police outs scam advisory involving WeChat
Halifax Regional Police has issued a scam advisory warning citizens about a scam involving the social networking app WeChat. The police said that its Financial Crime Unit of the Integrated Criminal Investigation…
Canada one step closer to banning microbeads
The Canadian government is one step closer to banning microbeads n personal care products – a step the government says is in the direction of continuing to protect Canadian families and the…
Committee on Climate Change calls for urgent action on climate change
The Committee on Climate Change has called upon the Government to take urgent action in a bid to avoid increasing costs and impacts of climate change in the UK. The CCC said…
Skype ordered to appear before Belgium court for refusing data sharing request
Skype has been ordered to appear before a Belgium court over its refusal to pass on user messages and call information to aid a criminal investigation. According to Reuters, a court in…
UK Gov: We are not going to extend Windows XP support agreement with Microsoft
The UK government has confirmed that it is not going to extend its Windows XP support agreement with Microsoft for another year. The government had signed a £5.5 million one-year deal with…
Apple, Google, others call on Obama to reject encryption backdoor request
Apple, Google, Yahoo, among many others, along with noted cryptologists, have written a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama urging him to reject government proposals to include backdoors in encrypted communication systems….
Belgian watchdog accuses Facebook of disobeying European data-protection laws
Belgian Privacy Protection Commission has accused Facebook of not complying with the European data-protection laws as it still continues to track people online without their consent. “Facebook tramples on European and Belgian…
Ofcom’s proposal to BT: open up dark fibre network for rivals
UK telecoms watchdog Ofcom has called upon BT to open up its dark fibre network dubbed ‘Dark fibre’ for use by rivals in a bid to promote healthy competition in the £2…
China bans use of wearable tech by armed forces owing to security concerns
China has reportedly imposed a ban on use of internet-connected wearable tech by its armed forces in lieu of security concerns. According to a report on People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily, which…
Google denied 60% of right to be forgotten requests
Google’s latest transparency report reveals it rejected nearly 60 per cent of the right to be forgotten requests. It was on May 13, 2014 that the Court of Justice of the European…
Cyber breaches will cost global economy over £1.3bn by 2019: Report
Cyber breaches will cost the global economy more than £1.3bn by 2019, increasing to almost four times the estimated cost of breaches in 2015, a new study claims. According to Juniper Research,…
UK advertising watchdog bans TalkTalk’s ‘99.9% reliable’ broadband advert
UK’s advertising watchdog has banned a TalkTalk advert which claimed its broadband connection was a whopping 99.9% reliable. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) investigated the alleged TalkTalk TV advert, which offered free…
Internet will eat up all of UK’s power supply by 2035, experts warn
Experts in the UK have warned that the country’s growing demand for internet, driven by surge in online video consumption, could bring the Internet closer than ever to a “capacity crunch.” It…