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Google takes Germany to court over its hate-speech law (NetzDG)

Google takes Germany to court over its hate-speech law (NetzDG)

Google said on Tuesday that it is planning legal action against Germany over the country's expanded version of hate speech laws that recently went into effect. Google says that the expansion of the laws violated the right to privacy of its users. The Alphabet unit, which also runs YouTube, filed... Read more

date3 years ago
GDPR inquiry launched on the use of Azure and AWS in the bloc

GDPR inquiry launched on the use of Azure and AWS in the bloc

EU's privacy regulator, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has started an inquiry into whether the bloc's leading institutions are protecting citizens' private data when using Microsoft's Azure and Amazon's AWS clouds. The EDPS has also opened a separate examination into whether the ... Read more

date3 years ago
Android apps exposed millions of users through misconfigurations

Android apps exposed millions of users through misconfigurations

Researchers analyzing Android apps have found profoundly worrying cloud misconfigurations that expose the data of more than 100 million users. Check Point Research published a report on Thursday saying that at least 23 mobile applications have a variety of misconfigurations of third-party cloud ser... Read more

date3 years ago
500 million LinkedIn account details have also leaked online

500 million LinkedIn account details have also leaked online

This week, the world was shocked that the personal user information from 533 million Facebook accounts was made available online. Now, there is another batch of people’s data published online.  The data includes account information from LinkedIn (the Microsoft-owned social network) users. The... Read more

date3 years ago
Atos and OVHcloud are partnering to build a European cloud service

Atos and OVHcloud are partnering to build a European cloud service

The French groups Atos and OVHcloud are partnering up to start a fully European-led cloud computing service. The move is seen by many as a way to widen the choice European-based companies, and the public sector organizations have. The cloud computing sector is growing fast and is dominated by Am... Read more

date3 years ago
U.S. government appeals court order blocking restrictions on TikTok

U.S. government appeals court order blocking restrictions on TikTok

The U.S. government appealed a federal judge’s court order blocking the Commerce Department from imposing restrictions on TikTok, which would have seen the short video-sharing app with Chinese owners effectively banned in the United States. Trump's administration had come up with national secu... Read more

date3 years ago
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