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…
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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…
Professional Hockey’s TCPA (And Other) Privacy Problems
Thomas O’Toole writes: Morrison & Foerster’s Socially Aware blog has an interesting post about a California man who filed a putative class action lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team for failing to honor the team’s alleged promise to send him no more than three text messages each week. After receiving five messages the first week and…
Legal action to stop sale of spy technology to brutal regime
Jack Serle reports: Human rights group Privacy International is preparing to take legal action against the British government for failing to control exports of sophisticated spy technology to brutal regimes. Legislation allows the British government to restrict or stop exports if they are capable of aiding repression or breaches of human rights. But the NGO…