Internet privacy

Turkey is second in the world in terms of the amount of content restricted on Facebook due to government requests, following India, according to the social media site's Global Government Requests Report, which includes information about content removal.

A slight increase in government requests for account data in the second half of 2014 was recorded, the report also said.

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Search engine Google has agreed to better inform users about how it handles their personal information after an investigation by Britain's data protection regulator found its privacy policy was too vague.
   

Thirteen human rights organizations on Monday called on Romania's new President, Klaus Iohannis, to reject a cyber security law, saying it violates constitutional rights to privacy.

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Police are investigating claims by a group of hackers that they have got hold of data on everyone in the country.

"We have whole Serbia in our hands. We have almost all information about Serbian citizens, starting from their ID numbers to information on what they do, where they live and what are their phone numbers," the hackers wrote in an email sent to the media on Thursday.

Some 63 percent of Internet users in Turkey are concerned about their online privacy, which is slightly less than the world average of 64 percent, according to a recent survey.

Sharing personal photos on social media is inappropriate according to Islam, Turkey’s Directorate for Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has announced.

“It is improper in religion for a person to expose their privacy on virtual platforms and share it with other people,” the Diyanet said in its monthly magazine, according to daily Habertürk.

NOVI SAD - Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Rodoljub Sabic pointed on Thursday to a very bad situation concerning personal data protection in Serbia.

This week, the Turkish Parliament passed a series of laws, including changes about internet privacy.

Journalists cautioned against violating privacy

BELGRADE -- It is unacceptable that the media are publishing data on crime suspects and their victims, Rodoljub Šabić has said.

The commissioner for information of public importance and personal data protection on Friday once again warned against the practice.