By Zoe Kleinman, Technology reporter A Romanian man should not have been fired for sending private messages at work, Europe’s top human rights court has ruled. Bogdan Mihai Barbulescu was…
Tag: privacy
UK protests Twitter's block on user data
The British government is protesting against Twitter’s decision to withdraw access to user data used to investigate potential terrorist plots. The information was previously used by the police and the…
In mining user data, US ISPs must weigh cash vs. privacy
Some experts worry that broadband providers will go too far in monetizing customers’ data with the privacy rule repeal By Michael Kan U.S. internet service providers are about to face…
Flybe fined for sending 3.3 million unwanted emails
The airline Flybe has been fined £70,0000 for sending more than 3.3 million marketing emails to people who had opted out of receiving them. The emails, sent in August 2016,…
As of today, iThings are even harder for police to probe
iOS 10.3 lands, complete with heavily encrypted Apple File System. By Simon Sharwood Apple today released iOS 10.3, watchOS 3.2 and tvOS 10.2 (14W265), the first two of all of…
Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
Dave Lee North, America technology reporter US internet service providers will soon no longer need consent from users to share browsing history with marketers and other third parties. On Tuesday…