Google’s DeepMind AI to use 1 million NHS eye scans to spot diseases earlier
Privacy is unlikely to be an issue for this fully anonymised dataset.
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China restricts online news sites from sourcing stories on social media
News outlets forbidden from using "conjecture and imagination to distort the facts."
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Russian ISPs will need to store content and metadata, open backdoors
Online surveillance measures come as part of anti-terrorism legislation.
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Proxy.sh hints at gag order after VPN node withdrawn from warrant canary
Company promises to commit "corporate seppuku" if need be.
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Global Internet commission: Leave crypto alone, ditch opaque algorithms
Governments should agree on a list of "legitimate targets" for online attacks.
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Feature Story
Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?
We paid for the research with taxes, and Internet sharing is easy. What's the hold-up?
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In “an unusual move,” US government asks to join key EU Facebook privacy case
Decision likely underlines pivotal importance of the case for transatlantic data flows.
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Open access should be the norm for EU by 2020, say research ministers
An important political signal, but not legally binding on EU member states.
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Judge rules UK police can’t force defendant to hand over passwords
Lauri Love is fighting extradition to US over Federal Reserve Bank hack.
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Italy orders Facebook to hand over fake user account data to its alleged victim
US social networking giant refuses to say whether it will comply with Italian demand.
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Copyright chaos: Why isn’t Anne Frank’s diary free now?
Op-ed: EU's long and fragmented copyright terms are unfit for the digital world.
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Copping it for copyright
UK dead-set on 10-year sentences for P2P pirates
Despite questions about feasibility, harsh penalties for infringers are in store.
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Shields lowered
EU data watchdogs: Privacy Shield needs fixes
US-EU pact allowing cross-Atlantic data transfers was signed in February.
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EU-US Privacy Shield may not pass muster, according to leaked extract
EU data authorities might go to court if Commission forges ahead anyway.
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Human error
To dodge crypto, undercover UK cops simply asked to see terror convict’s iPhone
No need for backdoors or weakened encryption when clever policing does the job.
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Paris terrorists used burner phones, not encryption, to evade detection
"Everywhere they went, the attackers left behind their throwaway phones."
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