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GCHQ may be forced to respond to FoI requests after European court ruling
(credit: Nilfanion) European citizens have a right to information from public authorities under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), it has been ruled—in a decision that may...
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High-speed rail officials planned to spy on private lives of opponents
Enlarge (credit: HS2) Officials working on Britain's controversial HS2 high-speed rail project intended to gather highly-personal data on the private lives of "complainants, correspondents, litigants,...
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Trump: I’ll ditch TPP trade deal on day one of my presidency
Enlarge (credit: Transition 2017) US President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed that the US will pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a trade deal involving 12 Pacific Rim nations—"on day...
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Snowden can be asked to testify in person in German NSA probe
Enlarge (credit: Gage Skidmore) Whistleblower Edward Snowden can be asked to give evidence in person by a German committee probing the NSA's spying activities, the country's Federal Court of Justice...
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Japan plans 130-petaflops China-beating number-crunching supercomputer
Enlarge (credit: Argonne National Laboratory) Japan is reportedly planning to build a 130-petaflops supercomputer costing $173 million (£131 million) that is due for completion next year. Satoshi...
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German interior ministry wants to diminish citizens’ data privacy rights
Enlarge (credit: Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung) Germany is planning a "data protection prevention law" that will reduce dramatically the powers of the country's privacy watchdogs—the German...
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Theresa May signs up to unitary patent, accepts supremacy of top EU court
Enlarge (credit: Google Maps) The UK has announced that it will ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement, a key step needed to bring the unitary patent and Unified Patent Court (UPC) into being. But...
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Europol hit by data security breach, blames human error
Enlarge (credit: OSeveno) Over 700 pages of confidential police files on 54 European terrorist cases were left unencrypted and exposed online, it has emerged. The files—the leak of which was revealed...
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UK terror watchdog: I applaud strong, responsible, less intrusive spy laws
Enlarge (credit: West Midlands Police) Just days after the Investigatory Powers Act came into being, the UK's outgoing terror watchdog David Anderson QC has rejected the "hostile narrative of...
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Embedding isn’t copyright infringement, says Italian court
Enlarge (credit: JAY DIRECTO/AFP/GettyImages) The appeal court of Rome has overturned one of the 152 website blocks another court imposed last month, and ruled that embedding does not constitute a...
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Internet giants will join forces to stop online sharing of terrorist material
Enlarge (credit: Frettie) Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube have announced that they will be working together to curb the dissemination of terrorist material online. The Web giants will create...
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In the UK, Pfizer and a partner hiked anti-epilepsy drug price 2600% overnight
Enlarge (credit: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images) US pharma giant Pfizer and a partnering distributor have been slapped with a record fine for hiking UK drug prices by 2,600% overnight. In September...
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Snowden leaks reveal NSA snooped on in-flight mobile calls
Enlarge (credit: Le Monde) GCHQ and the NSA have spied on air passengers using in-flight GSM mobile services for years, newly-published documents originally obtained by Edward Snowden reveal....
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Commercial sites must check all their links for piracy, rules Hamburg court
Enlarge (credit: Hernán Piñera) A German court's recent decision on copyright is "a first glimpse at the devastating consequences an earlier ruling by the European Court of Justice may have on the...
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Crunch time for Kit Kat’s 3D shape as EU judges show teeth in trademark row
Enlarge (credit: Scott Ehardt) The European Union's Intellectual Property Office has been told that it must re-examine whether the three-dimensional shape corresponding to the product "Kit Kat 4...
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UK schoolkid data shared to “create hostility” against illegal migrants
Enlarge (credit: dannyman) Children's personal details are being passed to the home office with the "strategic aim" of creating "a hostile environment for those who seek to benefit from the abuse of...
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German law would fine social media sites “publishing” fake news
(credit: Facebook) Germany's coalition government is threatening to bring in legislation early next year that would see Facebook and other social media firms fined up to €500,000 (£420,000) for...
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Google is threatening to throw me off Google+, but won’t tell me why
Enlarge Last week, I received the following e-mail, purportedly from the Google+ team: We've determined that your posts may be in violation of our User Content and Conduct Policy. Spamming, including...
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Brexit will damage world-class science in the UK; throwing money at it won’t...
Enlarge (credit: Diliff) The UK gets more money for research from the EU—£8.8 billion between 2007 and 2013—than it contributes (£5.4 billion for the same period). Fortunately, that shortfall is a...
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Illegal memes? Weak Safe Harbor? Unpacking the proposed EU copyright overhaul
(credit: Amio Cajander) "Modern copyright rules fit for the digital age" is how the European Commission describes its proposals for the first major overhaul of EU copyright law since 2001. But a wide...
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