Trevor Timm writes: A few months ago, EFF warned of a secretive new surveillance tool being used by the FBI in cases around the country commonly referred to as a “Stingray.” Recently, more information on the device has come to light and it makes us even more concerned than before. The device, which acts as a fake…
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Amazon, eBay privacy lobbying sparks cut-and-paste crowdsourcing drive
David Meyer writes: It’s no secret that the big U.S. tech firms have very active lobbying operations in Europe — operations that are in overdrive right now, due to the ongoing revision of the EU’s Data Protection Regulation. But you may be surprised to see how literally some members of the European Parliament are taking those lobbyists’ suggestions,…
EU Data-Privacy Law Overhaul Backed by Telecom Industry
Stephanie Bodoni reports: Reform of the European Union’s almost 18-year-old data-protection rules to ensure they apply to all companies in the EU market equally has the backing of the bloc’s largest telecom industry group. “The data-protection regulation is a major move toward establishing a truly level playing field, allowing all players in the EU to…
They really don’t know clouds at all
Stewart Baker writes: Every new computing technology seems to bring with it a privacy flap. Cloud computing is going through that phase right now, at least outside the United States. Canadian and European elites fear that putting data in the cloud will somehow let the US government paw through it at will, a fear that…