Nerea Rial reports: Facebook is taking seriously its data protection responsibilities. On 20 May, the social network announced the appointment of Yvonne Cunnane as Lead Data Protection and Privacy Counsel, who will join firm’s team in Dublin, in an attempt to promote Facebook Ireland’s (FB-I) role and obligations as information controller in the European Union. Read more [...]
Dutch rules requiring all websites to get express permission from visitors to use software known as cookies is to be watered down, economic affairs minister Henk Kamp has told parliament. MPs had urged the minister to take steps to stop the constant appearance of irritating popups on websites since the legislation came into effect last [...]
Ben Grubb reports: The federal government has been accused of sneaking mandatory web filtering through the back door after one of its agencies inadvertently blocked 1200 websites using a little-known law. Technology news website Delimiter this week revealed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) last month used a telco law to ask major internet service providers (ISPs) to [...]
Elaine Edwards reports: The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating a complaint that an employee of online networking company LinkedIn allegedly accessed personal details of one of its customers to further an issue he had with the firm where she worked. The complaint was made by a senior employee of a telecommunications company, who received a private message [...]
Choi Yu-bin reports: In 2012 with a presidential election, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) carried out 99% of all wiretapping with the help of telecom companies, according to data provided by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning and Jinbo Network Center on May 13. NIS wiretapping could actually be more extensive than expected, [...]
Jan Vermeulen reports: The Telkom IP addresses identified by Citizen Lab as command & control servers for the FinFisher spyware are part of the general dynamic pool assigned to ADSL users, a Telkom spokesperson recently told MyBroadband. FinFisher made headlines recently when a Citizen Lab report detailed how the spyware suite was used against political dissidents in Bahrain and Malaysia. Read [...]
Moxie Marlinspike writes: Last week I was contacted by an agent of Mobily, one of two telecoms operating in Saudi Arabia, about a surveillance project that they’re working on in that country. Having published two reasonably popular MITM tools, it’s not uncommon for me to get emails requesting that I help people with their interception projects. I [...]