Leigh Phillips reports: The EU justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, has confronted Washington over data protection rights in the fight against terror, accusing the US of being interested only in accessing European citizens’ bank records and flight schedules but not in protecting their rights while doing so. Today Reding complained that at a meeting in Washington…
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Recommended Reading: Monitoring America
Dana Priest and William M. Arkin report: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the…
What They Know: Your Apps Are Watching You
Scott Thurm and Yukari Iwatani Kane report: Few devices know more personal details about people than the smartphones in their pockets: phone numbers, current location, often the owner’s real name—even a unique ID number that can never be changed or turned off. These phones don’t keep secrets. They are sharing this personal data widely and…
European Parliament demands that Commission protect web users from advertising
The European Parliament has asked the European Commission to come up with plans to control online advertising more closely; give internet users more control of their privacy; and stop companies publishing advertising masquerading as opinion. It has asked the Commission to introduce rules that force companies to be more up front about behavioural advertising; that…