Telekom eavesdropped on alleged hackers - "According to the report, electronic surveillance of four telephone numbers in Hennef, Rhineland, began in December 1996 under the codename 'Bunny'. Conversation contents were also recorded. A total of nearly 120 calls were reportedly captured." - another reason why such fundamental infrastructure as telecommunications simply does not belong in private hands, as it can be controlled far too little. However, abuse cannot be ruled out even in state-owned companies or agencies, but at least there are rudimentary controls in place.
datenschutz - 25.6.2007 - 21.6.2008
Your personal data just got permanently cached at the US border - isn't it cute how countries that otherwise always emphasize freedoms so much issue the most absurd regulations? Which freedoms are actually being defended when you give them all up?
Credit agencies in Austria must delete credit data upon request - could we please get this here in Germany as well?
I love the Internet. And my genes. - time again to link to the Rebel Market. If the future is social-gen-sharing, and everyone can deduce nonsense from pseudo-scientific collections of data garbage, if future HR managers not only get the sexual preferences and the drunken remarks from the study period willingly served from the net, but also a genetic profile with absurd pseudo-interpretation, then a new boundary of complete stupidity on the net has definitely been crossed. And since it fits so well into the whole discussion, let's just ge-owled. I mean, Stasi 2.0 is nothing compared to what is voluntarily disclosed on the Internet ...
Text & Tables: Google has not corrected criticized Terms of Service - one might think that Golem is riding on that a tiny bit. So let's help them through links, okay? Spread the word.
SWIFT withdraws EU data from easy access by the USA - they say. they plan.
EU lawsuit against German data protection laws - because the data protection officers are not really independent. Will it have any effect?
Google Mail will shut down due to data retention - sounds dramatic, right? Google as a champion of privacy and data protection. I'm laughing now. And those who think that Google is now fighting for its rights: sorry, but what they will probably do is simply block German IP addresses on their service. If at all.