GDPR: Do not resist! Unless you want a visit from the data police Comment €20m is srs bsnss so we will keep talking about it Legal08 Feb 2017 | 31
NSA, GCHQ and even Donald Trump are all after your data Comment What do you do? Use manual typewriters or live in a Scottish croft? Our man advises Channel20 Oct 2016 | 51
You've been hacked. What are you liable for? 'It won't happen to me...' but best be prepared Security14 Oct 2016 | 15
Are you sure you want to outsource IT? Yes/No. Check this box to accept Ts&Cs Er, and you might wish to READ them too Channel21 Sep 2016 | 26
Hey cloud lawyer: Can I take my client list with me? It's not like my boss painstakingly nurtured the contacts, right? Channel20 Jun 2016 | 80
Committees: Wait! Don't strap on the Privacy Shield yet Two working parties, ministers galore... but data transfer law remains in limbo Channel24 May 2016 | 10
Brexit: Time to make your plans, UK IT biz Analysis Legal Armageddon? Maybe, maybe not – but we'd better get moving Channel31 Mar 2016 | 106
Data protection: Don't be an emotional knee jerk. When it comes to the law, RTFM Know the law? Read the contract? No? Stop confusing yourself Channel10 Mar 2016 | 40
Microsoft vs US.gov, Internet of Stuff, etc: What's up with 2015's legal cloudy issues? Is Big Data still a Big Legal Problem? Channel02 Feb 2016 | 5
Europe's digital grand fromage Oettinger: I'm not resigning Those rumours that the commissioner is to step down are not true Legal15 Oct 2015 | 1
EU’s digi VP: More telco consolidation! What about competition? Telcos: Or ... you relax the merger rules Channel15 Oct 2015 | 1
Want to self-certify for Safe Harbor? Never mind EU, yes we can Questions? Talk to our hand, or that lot across the pond Networks13 Oct 2015 | 55
Fingerprints, facial scans, EU border data slurp too tasty for French to resist France wants proposed rules applied to EU citizens as well Legal12 Oct 2015 | 30
EU Digital Commish: Ja, we should have done more about NSA spying Oetti pins hopes on a 're-negotiated' safe harbour Legal12 Oct 2015 | 21
EU justice ministers agree on police data-sharing law But directive still needs Euro Parl approval - get the popcorn Legal09 Oct 2015 | 5
VW offices, employees' homes raided by German prosecutors Meanwhile Volkswagen's American head is in Congress' sights On-Prem08 Oct 2015 | 49
Exposed Volkswagen 'n' pals get 2 more YEARS to sort out emissions Real world still won't meet laboratory limits Legal08 Oct 2015 | 55
EU desperately pushes just-as-dodgy safe harbour alternatives Doesn't matter whether they're legal, just keep the data flowing! Legal07 Oct 2015 | 30
Safe harbour ruling: RELAX, Facebook and Google will be FINE! Data-heavy, medium firms will be hit hardest Channel06 Oct 2015 | 20
French hacks go after new surveillance law … with the help of the ECHR Meanwhile, plans are afoot to extend it beyond France Legal06 Oct 2015 | 14
Safe Harbour ruled INVALID: Facebook 'n' pals' data slurp at risk Time to get off the jet ski and get the lawyers on the blower Channel06 Oct 2015 | 82
US tries one last time to sway EU court on data-slurping deal Business as usual in 4,400 companies at stake Security05 Oct 2015 | 52
Watch out VW – French prosecutors are pulling on the rubber gloves Squeaaaaak ... SNAP. This won't hurt a bit Legal02 Oct 2015 | 33
Slurp data in a Eurozone country? Play by their DPA's rules – EU court No hiding from data protection law in another country – ECJ Channel01 Oct 2015 | 7
What does EU farm subsidy get spent on? Yes, broadband for Irish farmers It's not a superhighway, it's a bandwidth mountain. Or lake Networks01 Oct 2015 | 17
Don't look now, but there's another EU data protection court case about to bite ECJ to decide on which privacy watchdog can fine whom Legal01 Oct 2015 | 7
Europe talks to hackers, security bods on Wassenaar recalibration Delegates suggest govs should sort themselves out before criminalising researchers Legal30 Sep 2015 | 5
Relax Schrems, EU-US Safe Harbour ruling coming soon Meanwhile, US says Europe's top legal adviser is totally wrong on US surveillance Legal30 Sep 2015 | 22
NBN net neutrality under fire following DPI RFI We'll only sniff your packets FOR YOUR OWN GOOD Networks30 Sep 2015 | 4
Macquarie academics send Gmail a ‘Dear John’ letter 'Keep our data away from the PATRIOT Act, please' Legal29 Sep 2015 | 3
Microsoft eats its Dynamics CRM young with Adxstudio buy Another day, another small deal to beef up Redmond’s portfolio Channel29 Sep 2015 | 2
Now you can be tracked online by your email addy. Thanks, Google! We see you just went on holiday. Would you like another one tomorrow? Legal29 Sep 2015 | 68
Apple CEO: We've hoovered up your cash faster than ever before Record sales of iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus lead to avaricious Cook outburst Personal Tech28 Sep 2015 | 23
EU, China promise 5G cooperation, seek an understanding on standards Chinese quite keen on the EU’s export market, presumably Networks28 Sep 2015 | 2
You want a 6% Google Tax? Get lost, German copyright bods told Only snippets longer than seven words are chargeable Legal28 Sep 2015 | 30
EU data protection chief: Snaffling all air traveller data goes too far Buttarelli can't see any sensible reason for enormous passenger data slurp Legal28 Sep 2015 | 21
M2, Vocus merge to form down under’s newest billion-dollar telco Oz telco consolidation continues On-Prem28 Sep 2015 | 2
Sprint passes on premium spectrum Already got plenty of airwaves, wants to hold onto its cash On-Prem28 Sep 2015 | 3
How can we manage this internet thing? The Euro gov needs YOU Help us make up our minds with yet another consultation Legal25 Sep 2015 | 14
Boffins make brain-to-brain direct communication breakthrough So long as you just want to answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’, it's fine Science24 Sep 2015 | 19
You call THAT safe? Top EU legal bod says data sent to US is anything but ECJ could upset the whole dang apple cart Legal23 Sep 2015 | 53
Roll-your-own public safety broadband network too pricey for Australia Productivity Commission angers emergency services: 'Just get a Telstra plan' Legal23 Sep 2015 | 2
Oettinger stateside, building bridges while carrying a big stick Digi Commissioner chewing the fat with Google, Facebook, Apple et al Legal22 Sep 2015 | 2
Transport for London’s new crash map immediately crashes Popularity sees it clogged by congestion, just like the real thing Legal22 Sep 2015 | 19
Who probes the Google probers? EU Commish in watchdog's sights If at first you don’t succeed, complain, complain and complain again Legal22 Sep 2015 | 4
iOS's infected app-list continues to grow, says Lookout How to exorcise the XcodeGhost haunting your iThing Security22 Sep 2015 | 35
Get that OFF dot-com, hysterical France screeches at Google Chocolate Factory's appeal rejected as 'right to be forgotten' battle escalates Legal21 Sep 2015 | 49
China launches 'pollution-free' rocket I'll green you on the dark side of the Moon Science21 Sep 2015 | 22
Microsoft Edges bets on browser-only Skype Plug-ins checking out for chatty types Software21 Sep 2015 | 26
EU spaffs €131m on making gov digi services 'talk' to each other Is that the whiff of personal data flying through the electronic ether? Legal18 Sep 2015 | 1
Microsoft to splurge $75m on computer training for kids Computer science as important as algebra, chemistry or physics, says MS president On-Prem18 Sep 2015 | 29
Sharp's new TV has over 7,000 lines of pixels – but there's NOTHING TO WATCH 8K vids years away as £85,000 telly goes on sale Personal Tech17 Sep 2015 | 40
German data retention law prompts Euro Commission backlash But not for the reason you think: 'We won't sue Merkel & Co, honest' says Commish Legal17 Sep 2015 | 4
In EU-US data sharing we trust – but can we have that in writing, say MEPs Signs of split between EU apparatchiks and elected reps Channel16 Sep 2015 | 7