Topic: Western Europe
Facebook has until November 7 to bring its facial recognition software into conformity with privacy laws in Germany and the European Union or face legal action, a government lawyer told AFP Friday."We have had extended negotiations with Facebook and have clearly stressed ...
A security inquiry was launched on Friday after Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin was seen throwing official documents into a rubbish bin in a London park, including papers about the rendition of terror suspects.Letwin, the minister for government policy, ripped up and ...
Germany's consumer protection minister has warned her fellow cabinet members against using Facebook to promote their work citing data security concerns, in an internal letter obtained by Der Spiegel.In an article to be published Monday, Der Spiegel said the minister, Ilse Aigner, ...
Britain's News of the World tabloid apologised in court Tuesday for hacking into the mobile phone messages of actress Sienna Miller and agreed to pay her £100,000 ($165,000, 110,000 euros) in damages and legal costs.The Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper said sorry at London's ...
PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - The European Commission plans to call Britain and Denmark to account for dragging their feet on enforcing a controversial new law to protect people's privacy on-line, a spokesman said.The move is a sign of how the war of words ...
Google said on Wednesday that it will appeal to Switzerland's highest court against a ruling ordering the Internet giant to ensure that all people and cars pictured on Street View are unrecognisable.The official Swiss data protection watchdog took Google to court in ...
WILMINGTON, Delaware/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Corp could face legal action across the globe after it belatedly revealed one of the biggest online data breaches ever.In the United States, several members of Congress seized on the breach, in which hackers stole names, ...
Belgium became Thursday the latest European country to investigate Google's Street View picture map after cars taking pictures for the programme collected private data."We have received a complaint from the privacy protection committee and we have opened an investigation," federal prosecutor's spokesman ...
PARIS (Reuters) - France's data protection regulator has fined Google 100,000 euros for collecting private data from wireless networks when its camera-equipped cars gathered footage for its on-line map service Street View.The Commission nationale de l'information et des libertes (CNIL) told Google ...
Google has agreed to delete private emails and passwords mistakenly picked up from wireless networks in Britain by its Street View cars, the information commissioner said Friday.The US Internet giant has also agreed to improve the way it trains staff on data ...
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