Privacy

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.
   

The Hellenic Data Protection Authority on Friday fined a maternity clinic 30,000 euros for operating a closed-circuit TV camera system in its labor unit, where women are monitored before being taken into the delivery rooms.

The cameras had been working from 2006 to 2014 without patients? prior consent.

A Turkish defense firm has provided Uruguay with materials to protect its borders, the company announced late Jan. 4.

Military electronics company Aselsan said the firm had delivered mobile border security systems to protect Uruguay?s land and sea borders.

In 2013, Aselsan won a $3.7 million contract to supply the mobile surveillance systems of the Uruguayan Army.

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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Germany's top court said Dec. 12 it rejected a bid by leftist opposition parties to call former NSA contractor Edward Snowden as a witness in a parliamentary probe of US intelligence activities.
      

The computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web says affordable access to the Internet should be recognized as a human right, as a report showed that billions of people still cannot go online and government surveillance and censorship are increasing.
     

The United Nations on Nov. 25 adopted a resolution on protecting digital privacy that for the first time urged governments to offer redress to citizens targeted by mass surveillance.
      

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.

Antoaneta Vasileva, wife of Tsvetan Vasilev - majority owner of troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB) was questioned in the Sofia Investigation Service in connection to a money laundering investigation, reports Dnevnik.bg.

She was summoned as a witness in the case investigating the purchase of a CHF 20 M house at the shore of the Geneva lake by herself and her husband.

Luxembourg said on Tuesday it will drop its bank secrecy rules from 2017 in a move that marks a breakthrough in global efforts to reduce tax evasion.