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Tag Archives: Germany
Convicted murderer wins ‘right to be forgotten’ case
Google must remove details of a convicted murderer from its search results in Europe following a German court ruling, it emerged last week.
Darknet hosting provider busted in underground NATO bunker
Police overcame not only digital defenses of the “bulletproof” provider CyberBunker but also barbed wire fences and surveillance cams.
Microsoft, Google and Apple clouds banned in Germany’s schools
Citing privacy issues, Germany just banned its schools from using Microsoft Office 365, Google Docs, and Apple’s iWork cloud services.
Hacker doxes hundreds of German politicians
For over a month, hackers published data from hundreds of German politicians in a Twitter advent calendar – a massive government assault.
Tor-linked nonprofit raided by police
They were after the authors behind a blog calling for violent protests but didn’t even bother with the authors’ email provider.
Anti-refugee posts prompt Facebook to launch hate speech taskforce
Hate speech is illegal in Germany, which has criticized Facebook for sluggish takedowns of anti-refugee posts vs. fast takedowns of nudity.
Now there’s a species of crayfish named after Edward Snowden
In a research paper published this week in the journal ZooKeys, German carcinologist Christian Lukhaup revealed the name of a new species of crayfish he discovered. He called it Cherax snowden.
Facebook ordered to allow pseudonyms by privacy watchdog
Good news for every Little Miss Hot Mess and Jemmaroid von Laalaa out there: a German privacy watchdog has ordered Facebook to allow users to take out accounts under pseudonyms.
The email that caused a literal meltdown – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Enjoy the last episode of “60 Second Security” for 2014! Learn from the week’s news in just one minute…