Internet privacy

Companies need to make sure that employees are aware in advance of management monitoring of their work email accounts, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Sept. 5 in a landmark privacy case.

The big IT companies demand to restrict authorities' access to user data. Reports Kaldata. 

The American Facebook, Google, Apple, and other IT companies have called on the US Supreme Court to seek to restrict law enforcement access to consumer privacy. That's what The Verge reported.

Apple Inc says it is removing virtual private network (VPN) services from its app store in China, drawing criticism from VPN service providers, who accuse the U.S. tech giant of bowing to pressure from Beijing cyber regulators.

More than 2,000 people have marched through the streets of Moscow to demand an end to efforts by Russian authorities to control and monitor what is posted online.
Protesters yelled slogans including, “Truth is stronger than censorship” and, “Free country, free internet”, and a handful of people were detained.

A new mobile transportation initiative by the Istanbul municipality has drawn angry reaction from the public over enabling audio and video recording in cabs during travels, with legal experts describing the move as a "violation of the right to privacy."

The Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA) says that a hold-up at Greece's privacy watchdog is preventing it from rolling out a much-publicized electronic ticketing system, which aims to limit fare dodging in the capital.

Google’s new ability to match people’s offline credit card purchases to their online lives is a stunning display of surveillance capitalism in action.

The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to repeal an Obama-era law that demanded ISPs have permission to share personal information – including location data. This means that US internet providers will no longer need consent from users to share their browsing history with private companies in the market.

Information Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic said on Wednesday that a large number of citizens had addressed him in the past few days.

They view the election campaign activities as a violation of the freedoms of citizens and an invasion of privacy, Beta has reported.

Is the Athens Transport Organization (OASA) planning to give passengers a pension? If not, why does it want to know their AMKA social security numbers? And that's not all.