Fiona O’Cleirigh reports: A British citizen’s UK court action will test the legal right of Microsoft to disclose private data on UK citizens to the US electronic spying organisation, the National Security Agency (NSA). The case will shine a light on the legality of top secret US court orders which require US technology companies to…
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Microsoft fights back against NSA ‘snooping’
Doug Gross reports: Still concerned about some faceless government bureaucrat peeking at your e-mails and other online communications? Well, you’ve got a new champion: Microsoft. The computing giant has announced a set of new privacy features, in a post that specifically calls out “government snooping” as the reason. Read more on CNN. The Microsoft post has…
Telstra’s data ‘vacuum’
Philip Dorling reports: Australia’s leading telecommunications company, Telstra, has installed highly advanced surveillance systems to “vacuum” the telephone calls, texts, social media messages and internet metadata of millions of Australians so that information can be filtered and given to intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The Australian government’s electronic espionage agency, the Australian Signals Directorate, is…
HK: California Fitness rapped by privacy watchdog over data use
Ng Kang-chung reports: Fitness centre chain California Fitness has been rapped over the knuckles by the privacy watchdog for putting at risk the personal details of 220,000 customers who have signed up for its exercise courses. An investigation by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, prompted by two complaints in 2011, found…