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
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
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
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
Data privacy complaint filed against Apple in EU by French Startup Lobby
France Digitale filed a complaint against Apple with CNIL (a data privacy watchdog) on breaching of European Union rules. France’s leading startup lobby confirmed the complaint filing in a statement.
In a seven-page complaint obtained by Reuters, the lobby, which represents most of France’s ... Read more
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
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