Jeremy Kirk

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Germany pressures Facebook on tracking technologies

Hamburg's Data Protection Authority wants answers from Facebook by Monday

U.S., British leaders condemn Internet censorship

LONDON CYBERSPACE CONFERENCE: Joseph Biden attacks unnamed countries interfering in freedom of expression, warning some nations want control over the Internet

Make Internet safer or suffer, says U.K. minister

LONDON CYBERSPACE CONFERENCE: William Hague has warned a conference that governments have to crack down on cybercrime and end what he calls the 'cyber free for all'

IBM to buy risk analysis company Algorithmics for US$387M

The company said Toronto-based Algorithmics' focus on credit and market risks will strengthen its advisory practice. Once the acquisition clears regulatory approval and closes, 900 employees from Algorithmics will become part of its Software Group

IBM to buy risk analysis company for $387M

IBM said Algorithmics' focus on credit and market risks will strengthen its advisory practice

UK government social media shutdown talk ends post-riot

The UK government does not appear to continue to support shutting down social networks in times of crisis

Facebook data collection under fire in Germany again

A data protection agency is concerned Facebook is collecting data in violation of E.U. law. Data is sent back to Facebook's servers in the U.S., which the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection alleges violates the German Telemedia Act

Google highlights trouble in detecting Web-based malware

No one system is effective in detecting increasingly complex malicious software, the company said. Google said it displays 3 million warnings of unsafe Web sites to 400 million users a day

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