data collection

EU court: Site operators can log visitors’ IP address for protection against attacks

October 20, 2016

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that the German government can collect and keep IP addresses of visitors to websites operated by German Federal …

Why digital hoarding poses serious financial and security risks

September 29, 2016

82 percent of IT decision makers admit they are hoarders of data and digital files, according to research conducted by Wakefield Research among 10,022 global office …

German Federal Intelligence Service violates laws, dodges supervision

September 8, 2016

The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been illegally collecting data through mass surveillance tools, storing it in databases that should not exist, and has …

“I agree to these terms and conditions” is the biggest lie on the Internet

July 14, 2016

Two communications professors have proven what we all anecdotally knew to be true: the overwhelming majority of Internet users doesn’t read services’ terms of …

New Russian law to force service providers to decrypt encrypted comms

June 29, 2016

An extremely wide-ranging anti-terrorism law has been passed last week by the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly (i.e. parliament), and it is widely expected to pass …

Review: The Architecture of Privacy

May 20, 2016

About the authors Courtney Bowman has been working in the data analytics space for the last decade. He joined Palantir Technologies in 2010 as an in-house Privacy and Civil …

Phone metadata can reveal sensitive info about individuals

May 18, 2016

Since Snowden revealed that the NSA collects from Verizon phone records of US citizens on a daily basis, those who support that kind of collection have been repeatedly …