There is a new developments in a privacy case brought by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems against Facebook. Facebook has questioned the right of Schrems to bring a Europe-wide class action. Now, Austria’s Supreme Court referred the question to the European Court of Justice (CJEU). Read full story
Dutch police have seized two servers belonging to Switzerland-based VPN provider Perfect Privacy. The VPN provider claims that Dutch police haven’t informed or contacted them about the reason servers were seized and about seizure they were informed by their hosting provider. Despite the seizure of servers, Perfect Privacy promises that no user data was compromised. Full story
A hackers group that calls itself the Shadow Brokers recently published on web and made accessible to everyone sophisticated hacking and surveillance tools. They claim that those tools come come from breach of NSA. Released hacking tools exploit vulnerabilities in software that the vendor doesn’t know about (so called “zero day vulnerabilities”) and thus haven’t […]
Spotify is making some users reset their passwords and the reason is – other websites keep getting hacked. There have been numerous huge data breaches affecting tens of millions of users. Situation is even worse because of the fact that many people re-use their passwords across many services. So breach of one service where password was re-used compromises other sites […]
It is estimated that by year 2020 there will be anywhere up to 50 billion internet-connected devices and 20% of them will be cars and or trucks. Such rapid explosion of use of connected devices explodes comes with security risks. Therefore US Department of Justice, together with other agencies, is evaluating and trying to predict those risks […]
Manual of Harris Corp.’s surveillance device shows how police can spy on phones. Stingray devices can track phone’s connection to the simulated tower, information about its location, and certain “over the air” electronic messages sent to and from them. And that’s at minimum. Full story
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in its ruling in a case between Vincent Deroo-Blanquart and Sony, ruled that selling a computer with pre-installed software is not an unfair commercial practice. Further, it found that there is no requirement to list the costs of the software. Case arise when Deroo-Blanquart bought a Sony laptop in […]
Recently Microsoft won a closely-watched case against US Department of Justice on disclosure of European customer data. In that case US court of appeals ruled that US search warrants do not reach our customers’ data stored abroad. In this article Microsoft explains their motivation fighting this case and why they think it’s a big deal. Full article
