BBC reports: Microsoft’s online message, phone and video chat service Skype has denied making changes to its system “in order to provide law officers greater access” to its members’ conversations. It follows reports suggesting infrastructure upgrades had made it easier to hand on users’ chat data. Skype has now posted a blog saying the changes…
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Mobile Privacy Lawmaker Invites the Anti-SOPA Forces to the Drafting Table
Dan Rowinski writes: …. Every month, a new story arises of how a mobile app failed to protect user information. Or how an advertising network violated consumer privacy. These stories highlight a very real issue: Policies that effect how technology interacts with consumers have not kept pace with innovation. Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) understands that…
The Things They Stored: Malte Spitz Delivers a Powerful Talk on Mobile Carriers Recording Your Daily Life
Ryan Singel writes: The mobile phone you carry in your pocket has revolutionized daily life, but it’s also made possible a surveillance society previously only dreamed of by the likes of the Stasi, KGB and NSA. Malte Spitz, a German Green Party politician, wanted to know what his carrier, T-Mobile, collected on him, and filed…
U.S. groups: Foreign cloud providers marketing against privacy concerns
Grant Gross reports: Cloud computing services from outside the U.S. are trying to exploit perceived weaknesses in privacy laws to drive business away from U.S. providers, according to some representatives of the tech industry. Deutsche Telekom and other companies are marketing their cloud productsas more private than those from U.S. vendors because of the Patriot Act…