Bloomberg reports: China’s top legislative body has passed a data security law, strengthening Beijing’s control over digital information amid a crackdown on local technology giants and market access disputes with the U.S. The legislation was approved Thursday by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, state broadcaster China Central Television said. The full text of the…
Category: Govt
Google, Facebook, Chaos Computer Club join forces to oppose German state spyware
Iain Thomson reports: Plans by the German government to allow the police to deploy malware on any target’s devices, and force the tech world to help them, has run into some opposition, funnily enough. In an open letter this month, the Chaos Computer Club – along with Google, Facebook, and others – said they are against proposals…
U.S. Waged Secret Legal Battle to Obtain Emails of 4 Times Reporters
Charlie Savage and Katie Benner report: In the last weeks of the Trump administration and continuing under President Biden, the Justice Department fought a secret legal battle to obtain the email logs of four New York Times reporters in a hunt for their sources, a top lawyer for the newspaper said Friday night. While the…
Millions of Brits ‘unwittingly tracked’ by phone after Covid jab to see if movements changed
Alex Winter reports: Millions of Brits have been unwittingly tracked by their mobile phones after getting the Covid jab, it’s reported. Health chiefs wanted the data to see if vaccinated people are moving about more after they have their inoculations. And Government scientists admitted in an official report that one in ten jabbed Brits were tracked…