From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served a Manchester company with a monetary penalty of £45,000 for blighting the public with unwanted marketing calls. The ICO proposed to issue a fine of £90,000 but have had to take into account the company’s financial situation and reduce the penalty to £45,000. Tameside Energy…
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Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, Spencer Ackerman and Dominic Rushe Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company’s own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian. The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between…
Yahoo seeks to reveal its fight against NSA requests
Brandon Bailey reports: In a rare legal move, Yahoo (YHOO) is asking a secretive U.S. surveillance court to let the public see its arguments in a 2008 case that played an important role in persuading tech companies to cooperate with a controversial government data-gathering effort. Releasing those files would demonstrate that Yahoo “objected strenuously” to government demands…
A Hypnotic Visualization of Everything Gmail Knows About You and Your Friends
Brian Fung writes: When Google hands over e-mail records to the government, it includes basic envelope information, or metadata, that reveals the names and e-mail addresses of senders and recipients in your account. The feds can then mine that information for patterns that might be useful in a law-enforcement investigation. What kind of relationships do they…