According to the The Wall Street Journal, roughly 40 US companies have now signed on to the US-EU “Privacy Shield” agreement, introduced...

Last October the European Court of Justice killed the 15-year Safe Harbor agreement that allowed the transfer and processing of data...

As suggested by earlier leaks, European privacy regulators are rejecting the new “Privacy Shield” Data Transfer Agreement announced in...

Earlier this month, American and European officials announced a new framework to ensure the continued flow of data across the Atlantic....

A few months ago, the US-EU Safe Harbor deal became invalid, and data privacy for US companies hosting data for EU customers got a lot...

Last month, the European Court of Justice cited the Snowden revelations and US domestic surveillance to invalidate a 15-year-old “Safe...

The SIINDA conference in Prague concluded today with a panel of European publishers and lawyers discussing a range of legal and...

The two-year old Snowden-NSA spying revelations have fueled a growing climate of hostility toward Google, Facebook and other US tech...

Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems wants Facebook to pay for breaching European data protection law, and has filed a lawsuit against...

The company announced today that it’ll begin serving pages on all of its WordPress.com subdomains only over SSL by the end of 2014. Paul...

Yahoo has now joined Google in making all searches people do automatically go through a secure server, to help prevent eavesdropping by...

a range of reactions but many critics contend he didn’t go far enough. The proposed reforms also probably don’t help the tech...

The companies are Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL and Twitter. Others will likely follow their lead and join the...

Last month, Google made one of the biggest changes in search privacy ever, by routing all searches through its Google Secure Search...

The Washington Post has news of the filing, along with the first page of it. The Wall Street Journal also has news, along with the full...

statement last night about law-enforcement data requests. Signed by CEO Marissa Mayer and General Counsel Ron Bell, the statement said...

rebuttals” by other major tech firms, Apple has released a similar statement denying that the government has unfettered access to its...

disclosure of government-related user-data requests: For the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data requests...

During the whirlwind of news about the PRISM/NSA scandal, news has circulated that all three companies are providing large amounts of...

already been written about the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) “domestic spying” since The Guardian’s initial revelations about the...