Deutsche Bank has sacked two senior executives for spying on its board of directors and two other people. Prosecutors, data protection officials and financial regulators are all investigating the bank for allegedly spying on its own chief operating officer, a board member, an activist shareholder and a media mogul. The bank is awaiting results of…
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NZ credit firms eye privacy changes
Credit-reporting firms are pushing for a privacy law change to collect more information on New Zealanders seeking finance. The privacy commissioner’s office is reviewing the proposal as part of a wider review of credit reporting in New Zealand, but an academic says it could force more Kiwis to turn to loan sharks for finance. Credit-reporting…
Internet interception to start in Switzerland
Wikileaks.org has published confidential documents that “detail information on an official program for centralized, real-time, interception of Internet traffic in Switzerland. The interception will start on August 1, 2009.” One of the documents in the file is draft version 0.2 of TR TS (Technical Requirements for Telecommunication Surveillance). It is dated May 2009 and “applies…
Call for NZ website blacklist leak
A euthanasia activist is questioning the Government’s motives behind blocking access to objectionable websites. The new Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System , worth $150,000, will be provided free to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in a couple of months. The Government said 7000 objectionable sites would be blocked to fight child sex abuse. […] The software,…