Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The European Union no longer considers the United States a “safe harbor” for data because the National Security Agency surveillance exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden “enables interference, by United States public authorities, with the fundamental rights of persons.” The EU’s highest…
No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans’ Privacy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The spread of knowledge about the NSA’s surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple: especially non-U.S. customers who have discovered how weak the legal protections over their data is under U.S….
EUROPEAN COURT OPINION THREATENS NSA SPYING OVERSEAS
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A landmark agreement on data-sharing between the United States and Europe is “invalid,” an adviser to a top European court said Wednesday, in a decision that could lay the groundwork for limitations on the National Security Agency’s global Internet spying practices….
European court threatens NSA spying; NFL allowed to use drones
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Chinese President Xi Jinping is doing his best to reassure American CEOs during his visit to the United States, saying he is committed to addressing concerns over market access and intellectual property. “China would also maintain ‘relatively high’ growth for a…
EU-US data flows using “Safe Harbour” may be illegal because of NSA spying
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The “Safe Harbour” framework—which is supposed to ensure data transfers from the EU to the US are legal under European data privacy laws—does not satisfy the EU’s Data Protection Directive as a result of the “mass, indiscriminate surveillance” carried out by the…
European Watchdog Accuses Facebook of NSA-Style Spying
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Earlier, the Belgian Privacy Commission (BPC) filed a lawsuit against Facebook, which the BPC said is spying on people in “the very same way” that the US National Security Agency (NSA) does, according to media reports. Speaking at a court hearing, Frederic Debussere, a lawyer…
Facebook accused of spying on Belgian citizens like the NSA
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Facebook acted like the US’s National Security Agency, spying without authority on European users, lawyers representing the Belgian data protection authority said on Monday. In opening arguments in a closely watched case being brought against the social network company, Frederic Debussere,…
Fight against government spying war
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A lawsuit against the National Security Agency’s (NSA) data collection remains in limbo even as the legal landscape has changed and more private companies have been suspected of collecting data. Represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), First Unitarian Church v….
Edward Snowden Calls on UK Students to Rise Up Against Spying
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed the extent and methods of mass surveillance used by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s GCHQ spy agency, has called on students to oppose plans to increase surveillance powers. Snowden was speaking…
Is the UK government spying on you? Here’s how you can find out
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans In 2014, the world discovered that US security agency NSA had been spying on the communications of millions of its own citizens. But what about over here on the other side of the pond? Has GCHQ been spying on us too?…
